Brokers and owner-operators have long been at a divide. Given that they have both very different roles in the trucking community.

As it currently stands, the National Owner Operators Association dislikes the efforts of big entities in the community for manipulating rates data, just to keep up the Machiavellian appearance of stillness. Given that there’s so much deception that can occur on the platforms to make everything appear as if it were normal. Surely, the NOOA usually engages in arguments with the DAT Chief of Analytics upon the concept of how much brokers make off their hauls.

Questions are being made available, in spite of the annoyance the head must receive when it comes to feedback and skepticism on the data products. In spite of this, there had been shared sources and methodology that could very well remain unconvinced. The analysis of the margins that gets posted by brokers detail that brokers with flatbed trucks usually have the highest margin of beyond 15% while the industries follow by 14% and 13%.

The DAT is able to access these numbers from contributors who go through submitting standardized data reporting. After which, the most submitted data came right out of the TMS.

Brokers definitely shouldn’t be getting a high margin from any owner-operators’ haul.

Recently, it’s been obvious that the load-origin states show where brokers can get the higher margins. Where an owner-operator can easily check on the findings.

For any apparent value to come of this all, there has to be a foundational trust in the data. The NOOA spokesperson believes that these numbers haven’t quite been audited by a party outside of the DAT themselves. Therefore, putting disclaimers on the data product, telling anyone who uses the data to be careful and worry at their own risk.

Still. A lot of red tape surrounds this whole investigation. To be continued.