Find Carriers: Freight Brokers can use online load boards like rightnowloads.com to search for available owner operators and carriers to move their loads. Using load boards they can post their freight and search for Flatbed Drivers, Reefer Trailers, Dry Van trailer, hotshot trucks and smaller trucks like bobtails or box trucks that can haul only up to 13,000lbs max. Its actually FREE to post your loads on the load board and once your load is posted owner operators and carriers will contact you for the rate information on the load. If you need to search for drivers, and cant wait for them to contact you, you will have to register as a member, however if you are enroll in the Freight Broker Training course you will have 1 year FREE membership to search for carriers and post loads on the load board.
The load board offers many other tools to help freight brokers find reliable carriers to move their freight. They can post shipments by LTL freight (Less-Than-Truckload) which is only for smaller trucks or consolidated shipments or post FTL freight (Full-Truck-Load) shipments that is for larger 48-53″ dry van, flatbed, reefer trailers.