Dedicated Freight Services
A truck and driver assigned to your lane on a recurring schedule, priced for the term of the agreement instead of the daily spot market — built for shippers who already know what they run every week.
Committed Capacity, Not a Recurring Search
A dedicated lane trades the spot market's load-by-load pricing for a truck and driver combination that exists before the tender goes out.
A dedicated lane is a truck and driver combination assigned to your freight specifically, running the same origin and destination on a set schedule instead of getting sourced fresh off the spot market every time a load ships. The spot market prices and covers one shipment at a time — a fair system for freight that moves once or moves unpredictably, but a shipper running the same pickup every Monday and Thursday is paying for that uncertainty on freight that was never actually uncertain. Dedicated capacity removes the search: the truck exists for that lane before the tender goes out, not after it.
Setting one up starts with four numbers, not a handshake. We need a volume commitment — how many loads move on the lane each week — before anything else, because that number is what justifies pulling a truck out of the spot pool and assigning it full time. Lane definition comes next: exact origin and destination, or a short list of stops if the lane isn't a straight run, plus the pickup and delivery windows the schedule actually has to hit. Equipment gets assigned to match what the lane carries — dry van capacity for palletized retail freight, reefer for anything holding a setpoint — except this equipment stays with the lane between runs instead of going back into the pool the way our dry van trucking company equipment does for spot freight. Service levels close it out: appointment consistency, how detention gets handled, and what happens if a pickup slips a day.
None of that comes free. A dedicated lane asks for commitment on both sides — a minimum volume from the shipper and a rate locked for the term from us — and setting one up takes longer than a spot quote, since a truck and driver have to be sourced and scheduled before the first load moves, not after. It's also the wrong tool for thin or erratic volume: a lane that ships twice one week and not at all the next doesn't generate enough consistency to justify parking a truck against it, and it's cheaper for that shipper to keep quoting spot. For a lane that's already running spot with us and has settled into a real pattern, moving to dedicated is mostly a scheduling exercise rather than a cold start, since we already know the lane's volume, dock behavior, and appointment habits. Weigh that option against the rest of what we run on freight transportation services before committing to a term.
Built for Whoever Owns the Lane's Consistency
Peak-Season Capacity
Retail and CPG shippers who watch capacity tighten every peak season are the clearest case for dedicated: a truck assigned to the lane in July doesn't have to be resourced in November when everyone else is competing for the same spot capacity. Read freight services for shippers for how that consistency shows up the rest of the year too.
Brokers Reselling Committed Capacity
A broker whose customer wants the same lane covered the same way every week doesn't have to re-quote the spot market on their behalf each time it ships — the broker can resell a dedicated arrangement instead and pass the consistency along. Net-30 invoicing and a single dispatch contact carry over from spot freight, covered under freight capacity for brokers.
Carriers Ready for Committed Miles
A carrier tired of chasing a different broker every week for the next load gets the opposite problem solved by a dedicated lane: known miles, a known schedule, and quick-pay terms that don't depend on a factoring company. See freight opportunities for carriers for how a committed lane fits alongside spot dispatch.
What Makes a Dedicated Lane Worth the Commitment
Committing to a lane only pays off if these four things hold true for the length of the agreement, not just the first month.
Equipment That Doesn't Go Back in the Pool
Once a truck is assigned to a dedicated lane, it stays there instead of getting reassigned to whatever spot load comes up next. That's the entire mechanism behind the arrangement — capacity that exists for your freight before the tender goes out, not capacity we have to go find once it does.
Drivers Who Learn the Sites
A driver running the same dock twice a week eventually knows which door to back into, when the receiving team actually opens the gate, and how long unloading really takes there — knowledge that shaves real friction off a stop without anyone re-explaining the site from scratch every run.
A Rate You Can Plan a Budget Around
The rate on a dedicated lane is set for the term of the agreement instead of moving with daily spot market swings, so a freight budget built in January still holds in July even if the spot market on that lane has moved underneath it.
One Contact for the Whole Lane
A dedicated lane runs through the same accountable contact from setup through every load that follows, rather than a new dispatcher relearning the lane's quirks each time a truck is booked.
Common Questions About Dedicated Freight
Have more questions about how a dedicated lane gets structured? Our freight transportation FAQ covers equipment, pricing, and carrier setup in more depth.
Tell Us About Your Lane
Send us the lane, your weekly load count, and the equipment it runs on — we'll come back with what a dedicated arrangement would look like.