# 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.

URL: https://roadmark.ai/integrations/truckstop
Language: en
Last updated: 2026-10-01

**TL;DR:** Roadmark posts open loads to Truckstop and searches its postings for available capacity, so covering a load or finding a backhaul isn't limited to your own carriers. Contract lanes are also checked each morning against the spot average.

## What syncs

One row for each kind of record: which way it moves, and when.

| 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

1. **Sign in to Truckstop:** Sign in with your Truckstop account on Truckstop's own sign-in page and approve Roadmark's access.
2. **Choose what syncs:** Turn on posting loads to Truckstop, searching its postings for capacity, checking spot rates against your contract lanes, or all three.
3. **Test 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](https://developer.truckstop.com/reference/general-overview)
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](https://developer.truckstop.com/reference/predictive-rate-data)
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](https://roadmark.ai/truckload) 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.

## Related pages

- [Truckload](https://roadmark.ai/truckload): Hours, deadhead and backhauls
- [Brokers and 3PLs](https://roadmark.ai/brokers): Quote, cover, track and bill
- [Asset carriers](https://roadmark.ai/carriers): Fleets that plan, dispatch and settle
- [Integrations](https://roadmark.ai/integrations): ELD, EDI, load boards and accounting
- [DAT integration: post loads, find backhauls](https://roadmark.ai/integrations/dat): Roadmark posts open loads to DAT and pulls truck postings for backhauls, and checks contract lanes each morning against DAT's spot average.
- [Quoting and CRM](https://roadmark.ai/quoting): Customers, lanes, rates and RFQs

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