Integration · Load boards
Truckstop integration: post loads, find capacity
Roadmark posts open loads to Truckstop and searches its postings for available capacity, and checks contract lanes each morning against the spot average.
The short answer
Truckstop and Roadmark, in short.
What syncs
| What | Direction | When |
|---|---|---|
| Open loads | →Roadmark to Truckstop | When a load is posted |
| Available capacity | →Truckstop to Roadmark | When you search for it |
| Spot rates | →Truckstop to Roadmark | Checked each morning |
Setting up Truckstop
1Sign in to Truckstop
Sign in with your Truckstop account on Truckstop's own sign-in page and approve Roadmark's access.
2Choose what syncs
Turn on posting loads to Truckstop, searching its postings for capacity, checking spot rates against your contract lanes, or all three.
3Test with a real load
Post one load, or run one capacity search, and check what came back before turning it on for everything.
Before you start
- A Truckstop account licensed for the products you'll use: load posting, truck search or Rate Insights.
- For truck search, an integration ID that Truckstop's integrations team enables for your account.
Covering a load or finding a backhaul doesn't have to stop at the carriers you already work with. Roadmark can post an open load to Truckstop and search its postings for available capacity, so a lane with no obvious cover still has somewhere to look before it's offered out at a worse rate than it should be.
Truckstop's own developer portal documents the APIs behind this: the Load Management API for posting and updating loads, a Truck Search API for finding posted trucks, and Rate Insights for lane rate estimates. Truckstop requires a signed Systems Integration Agreement before it issues API credentials to an integration. On your side, someone signs in with your own Truckstop account on Truckstop's sign-in page to approve the connection, and Truckstop only opens the products that account is licensed for. Truck search also needs an integration ID, which Truckstop's integrations team enables for your account.
What comes back from a search is a truck posting, the same kind of listing a dispatcher would otherwise scroll through by hand, so a rep still decides which one to call. Posting a load doesn't change anything about how it's covered once a carrier takes it: the tender, the rate confirmation and the carrier portal all work the same whether the carrier came from Truckstop, a contract lane or your own network. Nothing about a Truckstop-sourced carrier skips the vetting Roadmark already does before a tender goes out, such as checking that carrier's authority and insurance are current that day.
Contract lanes get a second use out of the same connection. Truckload's lane check compares every contract lane each morning against DAT's spot average and Truckstop's Rate Insights estimate, so a lane that's quietly fallen behind the market is worth a call to the customer before the truck running it starts chasing spot freight instead.
Questions about Truckstop and Roadmark
What does searching Truckstop postings do for a backhaul?
It gives the Planning agent a source of capacity beyond your own customers and contract lanes when it's ranking the ways a truck can get home.
Does Truckstop change how contract lanes are priced?
Every contract lane is checked each morning against DAT's spot average and Truckstop's Rate Insights estimate, so a lane that's fallen behind the market shows up before a truck starts chasing spot freight instead.
What does Truckstop require on their side to connect?
A Truckstop account licensed for the products you use, and, for truck search, an integration ID that Truckstop's integrations team enables for that account.
See it with the systems you run.
Tell us what you run today. In the call, we show you what connects to Roadmark and how, on your own lanes and customers.
- Your lanes, customers and carriers, not a canned demo
- Beside the TMS you run today
- No commitment to switch anything