Repeat freight
If you'd trade a few cents a mile for knowing next week's loads, repeat lanes are how you get there: fewer empty miles, home time you can plan, less time on the boards. They go to carriers who show up, deliver clean and make the shipper's paperwork easy. Our dedicated lane dispatch puts you on the same lanes often enough for that record to be seen, and keeps it clean while you build it. We can't promise a lane. We can help you earn one.
The card is a made-up record of eight loads on one lane for the same broker. Every pickup was on time, every POD reached the broker the same day, every delivery was clean. Tap any mark to turn it into a miss and see how the record reads.
After eight loads like that, the conversation changes. In this example, the broker's coordinator calls to ask whether the truck can take the lane every Tuesday and Thursday for the next quarter at a set rate. That's how a lot of dedicated freight starts: not with a bid, but with a broker who stops wanting to search for a carrier.
Each of those eight loads was offered to the carrier and accepted, one at a time. The repeat offer was too. Taking on a commitment is a bigger decision than one load, so we lay out the rate, the days and what happens if you need a week off before you say yes.
| Load | On-time pickup | POD same day | Clean delivery |
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0 misses in eight loads.
A record a shipper notices: eight loads, nothing to chase. Tap any mark to change it.
A rate agreed for a period, often a quarter or a year, for a lane and a volume. It doesn't move with the weekly market. Good when spot rates fall, less good when they jump. Usually comes with expectations about how many loads you'll take.
A rate agreed for one load, today, at whatever the market will bear. Higher in tight weeks, lower in loose ones. No commitment either way, which is freedom and uncertainty in equal measure.
Most small carriers do best with a mix: a couple of steady lanes that cover the truck payment and get you home, and spot loads around them that you can pick for rate. A dedicated lane that pays a little less per mile can still earn more per week once you count the empty miles and search hours it saves.
Shippers that award lanes formally do it through a request for proposal. Our freight RFP guide (coming soon) explains how that works from the shipper's side. The freight tender guide covers what happens when a lane's loads are offered to you one by one. To compare a contract rate with spot on your numbers, try the rate per mile calculator.
Repeat freight rarely happens by accident. It comes from running the same lanes on purpose, for the same brokers and shippers, until they know your truck.
Most of those are paperwork and communication, not driving. That's the part a dispatch desk is built to keep clean while you focus on the road.
With two or more trucks, dedicated freight gets easier to win and harder to run. A shipper who needs a truck every day is more interested in a carrier that can always cover it, which a small fleet can do when one truck is down. The planning gets harder too: matching drivers' home days to the lane schedule and keeping every truck's record as clean as the first one. We plan the fleet around its lanes and keep each truck's paperwork moving, so a lane doesn't slip because one driver forgot a POD.
When a lane offer comes, you see it like any load, only bigger: the rate for the period, the days, the volume expected, the free time and detention terms, and what happens if you can't run a week. You decide whether to commit. If you do, every single load on it still comes to you as an offer with its own rate con to sign.
If a lane stops working for you, because the rate falls behind or the receiver starts holding you for hours, we talk to the broker first, then help you step away cleanly if needed.
The same approach works for one truck or several; see dispatch for owner-operators.
Load offer 1 of 1
ExampleDallas, TX to Little Rock, AR, Tue + Thu
Pickup Every Tue and Thu, 07:00
5% of linehaul and accessorial pay collected for one truck past 6 months of authority; 4% for two trucks or more; 7% for a new MC until month 7. No extra charge for a lane we helped you win, and nothing on weeks you don't run. Example Two loads a week at 80 with 0 in detention comes to ,010 and a weekly fee of 00.50. More on the pricing page.
Send the application with your home base and the lanes you'd like to own. We start building the record from your first load.
You approve every load. No setup fee. No contract.