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◉ Lane · 240 mi · I-45

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.

Distance
240 mi
Via I-45
Typical spot rate
$550850
Per load, broker-billed (industry estimate)
Common equipment
  • Dry van
  • Reefer
  • Flatbed
Volume drivers
  • Intra-Texas distribution
  • Energy services
  • DFW port-to-Houston transload

How flat 5% lands on a DallasHouston 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 DallasHouston volume, the gap is real money. See your annual savings →

Carriers running this lane are FMCSA-verified (active authority + insurance on file) and identity-cleared through our in-house identity KYC before they can be paid. The matching engine ranks them on how close they are to Dallas, their rating and their delivery record, then offers the load to one carrier at a time with an hour to accept — no auction, no double-brokering.