DAT Load Board Service increasing pricing by 25%

What kind of increases does a software company endure? Especially when most of their employees are working from home.

 

Quit using Dat 5 months ago , I run with 4 brokers and they have their own board or I call to see whats available in the area from those brokers. Haven't filled out a broker packet in a couple yrs .

 

You Sound like those brokers that calculate my offer to rate per mile and say I ain't paying you $5.50 a mile.
You can easily gross six figures using dat. I have no problem with the price increase. If it wasn't for this post I wouldn't have even known the price went up, $75 is a drop in the bucket.

 

Yeah what a ripoff... of course you could add the amount to the next load, but go ahead and cancel you’ll really show them

 

Truckstop.com and RMIS suck sooooooo bad!

Just raise your rates. Everyone already should have raised their rates by now.....everything is going up up up up.

 

Its not a question of if 25$ is worth it or not, its not even a question of it being worth 25% more, its a question of infrastructure built, charged a subscription price for, and then with lower overhead than ever before, raising that price. If we assume this is due exclusively to inflation, we should expect about a 2-5% increase yearly, but thats not what is happening here, they charged a price and never really adjusted it, then BAM, slam a significant price increase down.

Its still worth it to me, but it is quite annoying to see this dumb trend everywhere

 

It's called free enterprise and it's amazing. They have the right to charge whatever they want regardless if you feel it's warranted and they don't have to explain their reasoning either. You have the same right when it comes to the rates you set. If you don't see the value in what your getting in return for the money you're spending, then by all means cancel. But don't complain about this amazing thing we have in America called free enterprise. Who knows how much longer we'll have it. A lot of people are trying to turn it into a socialist system and that won't be good for anyone but those in power.

 

Prices will go up on everything, nothing will be spared, and we'll be fortunate if it doesn't get worse. Too many dollars chasing too few goods and services and this is what happens when the government gives everybody all that free PPP money and the stimulus checks.

 

Are you raising your rates to accommodate everything else that is increasing? It's not just DAT. All these increases on everything add up to a much larger number in the end. 50-75 dollars isn't much. You're right. However, do that 5-20 more times. Then multiply it by 12.