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An honest comparison

A 123Loadboard Alternative Free, Flat And No Commission

If you are looking for a 123Loadboard alternative, the two boards are closer in spirit than either is to the giants, both are aimed at owner-operators and small fleets rather than at enterprise brokerages. The difference is the entry point: our free tier has no clock on it and the board stays open until you send your third offer, our paid tiers are two flat prices with nothing above them, and we take no commission on your freight.

Both sides

Where Each Board Actually Wins

Where 123Loadboard is better

  • A longer track record and a larger established user base than a board our age.
  • A mature mobile app with a long history of iteration behind it.
  • Bundled tools an owner-operator uses daily, mileage and routing, credit reports, document handling, built out over many years.
  • More freight on the board today than we carry. They have had far longer to accumulate it.

Where One Load Board is better

  • A free tier that is a permanent plan rather than a trial with a clock on it, full board, every equipment type, the rate on every load.
  • Two paid prices and no more: $49 a month for one truck, $120 for up to five. Nothing sits above Fleet waiting to be quoted.
  • Yearly billing at a real discount, $350 for Pro instead of $588, and $720 for Fleet instead of $1,440.
  • No commission on your freight and no charge to a broker for posting it.
  • Every equipment type on one account, from cargo van and sprinter through to lowboy and tanker.
  • Cancel in one click from the dashboard, no notice, no fee, no form.
What each one costs

123Loadboard Pricing, And Ours

Their figures are read from their own published pricing page, not from a summary. Prices change, check theirs before you decide.

123Loadboard

Not quoted. Their published figures could not be read at source when this page was written, and a competitor’s price we have not verified is not one we will print.

  • They publish several carrier membership tiers, with mileage, routing, load matching, credit reports and rate tools distributed across them.
  • Memberships are billed monthly with no contract, and a free trial is offered.
  • We could not read their published figures at source when this page was written, so none are quoted here. Open their pricing page for today's numbers.

Read from 123Loadboard’s pricing page on .

One Load Board

Free, 3 offers
$0
Pro, one truck
$49 / month
Fleet
$120 / month
Pro, billed yearly
$350 / year
Fleet, billed yearly
$720 / year
  • No commission on your freight, on any plan.
  • No application fee and no card to see the board.
  • Brokers and shippers post free, permanently.
  • Cancel in one click, no notice period, no fee.
Full price list
Side by side

123Loadboard vs One Load Board

A feature-by-feature comparison of 123Loadboard and One Load Board.
Feature123LoadboardOne Load Board
Free tierFree trial, then it endsNo time limit, 3 offers
Paid tiersSeveral, see their siteTwo: $49 and $120
Five trucksCheck current plans$120 / month, one plan
ContractNone, monthlyNone, monthly
Commission on your freightNoneNone
Cost for brokers to postCheck current plansFree, permanently
Rate visible before you callVaries by postingOn every posting
Load volumeLarger, longer establishedSmaller, we are new

Load volume is the one row where we lose outright, and it is left in rather than left out. A board that costs nothing and has nothing on your lane has not saved you money.

Why there are no prices for them on this page

Because we could not read them at source. 123Loadboard's published pricing pages would not open to us when this page was written, and the third-party summaries that do exist disagree with each other by tens of dollars a month.

Printing a competitor's price we have not verified is the one thing a comparison page must not do. It is a legal problem, and it is disproven by a single click by anyone who cares enough to check. So the figure is not here, and their pricing page is linked above instead. Every price on this page for our own plans is one you can check on our pricing page in ten seconds.

Two boards aimed at the same person

It is worth saying plainly that this is not a David and Goliath comparison. 123Loadboard has always been pitched at owner-operators and small fleets rather than at enterprise brokerages, and a lot of what they built, mileage, routing, credit reports in the same place as the loads, comes from taking that audience seriously. If those tools are what keeps you there, that is a good reason and we are not going to argue you out of it.

What is genuinely different here is the shape of the plan list. There are two paid prices and a free one, the free one does not end, and the step from Pro to Fleet is trucks rather than features, five trucks at $120 works out at $24 each, so the upgrade happens when your business grows rather than when you hit a wall we built.

How to actually compare them

Not by reading pages like this one. Open a free account here, keep whatever you have, and put the same equipment and the same lanes into both. Then look at what each board puts in front of you over two weeks: how many matching loads, at what rates, and how quickly you heard about them.

  1. Set the same equipment types and the same origin and destination states on both.
  2. Count matching loads per day on your actual lanes, not nationally.
  3. Compare posted rates on the loads that appear on both, the rate here is on the listing, so this takes no phone calls.
  4. Note how fast you heard. Alerts on our free tier arrive on a delay and instantly on Pro, and on the loads worth having that gap is usually the whole difference.
123Loadboard vs us

Questions People Ask Before Switching

  • Is there a free alternative to 123Loadboard?

    Yes. One Load Board is free to start with no card: the whole board, every equipment type and three offers to send. After the third the board blurs until you pick a plan. Pro is $49 a month and adds the rate on every load, lane matching, and load alerts fifteen minutes after a post. Fleet is alerted the moment one lands.

  • How much does 123Loadboard cost?

    They publish several carrier membership tiers billed monthly with no contract. We could not read their figures at source when this page was written, so we do not quote them, open their pricing page for the current numbers.

  • What does One Load Board cost?

    Free at the entry tier, $49 a month for Pro covering one truck, and $120 a month for Fleet covering up to five. Yearly is $350 and $720 respectively. There is no commission and no tier above Fleet.

  • Can I use both boards at once?

    Yes, and it is the honest way to compare them. Our free tier has no expiry date and the board stays open until you send your third offer, so you can keep your existing membership, run the same lanes on both, and see which one actually puts freight in front of you.