Dallas, TX
→ Houston, TX
Texas's busiest intrastate lane. I-45 Houston-Dallas runs about 4 hours one-way and supports same-day round trips with team drivers. Energy-services support freight (pipe, frac sand) keeps flatbed demand steady.
- Dry van
- Reefer
- Flatbed
- →Intra-Texas distribution
- →Energy services
- →DFW port-to-Houston transload
How flat 5% lands on a Dallas–Houston load
A 240-mile dry-van load through a traditional broker — say, $850 all-in — typically loses $153 to the broker's spread (industry-average 18%, per FreightWaves). The carrier sees only $697, the shipper paid the full $850, and the difference funds a call-center.
On GetHaulDirect, the same load posts at $850 — and the carrier sees $808 (you keep the broker spread, the platform fee is $43 flat). Across a year of Dallas–Houston volume, the gap is real money. See your annual savings →
Carriers running this lane are FMCSA-verified (active operating authority) before they are offered a load, and each is asked for a certificate of insurance and an ID + selfie check. The matching engine looks for carriers whose equipment fits and whose home base is within reach of Dallas, prefers ones with payouts connected and recent activity, then offers the load to the best-fitting carriers at once with 30 minutes to accept — no auction, no double-brokering.