Central Dispatch — the ocean
Deepest freight pool in the industry and home of the rating system your whole reputation rides on. The trade-off is speed: well-priced loads post and vanish inside minutes during business hours, and the board pays whoever was watching at the moment of posting. Checking Central between fuel stops isn’t a strategy; it’s shopping the leftovers everyone faster already passed on.
Super Dispatch — the workflow
Serious and growing volume with the best operational tooling of the four — digital BOLs, photo inspections, payment tracking. A meaningful set of brokers posts here first or only, and its carrier reputation layer matters more every year. Getting full value means living inside its workflow all day, which is precisely a dispatcher’s job description.
Ship.Cars and Haully — the edges
Thinner volume, thinner competition — dealer flows, remarketing freight, and postings that never reach the big boards. Edge boards reward a desk with the time to watch them; they’re where a slow week gets rescued, and where a one-person operation almost never has eyes.
The coverage truth
Asking “which board is best” is the wrong question. The money is in seeing all four simultaneously, knowing which brokers on each actually pay their invoices, and moving inside the posting window — a full-time watching job. That’s the honest core of the case for a dispatch desk: not secret loads, just full-time eyes with rate data behind them, on boards we already work for our own fleet.