DAT & AscendTMS Bring 100% Digital Freight To The Masses

Tim Higham
January 12, 2026

DAT and AscendTMS made history in 2026. The world's first complete, end-to-end, digital freight transaction network is now available to EVERYONE to try - for free - in AscendTMS...and it'll blow your mind. These 100% digital freight transaction exchanges are THE future of freight - and the old "post and pray" model will soon be a thing of the past.

Instead of manually posting a load, you can now just make the load "visible" to DAT’s Convoy Pltform within AscendTMS. Then, DAT’s Convoy Platform matches, qualifies, negotiates, tracks, transits, and settles the load without any human involvement or interaction.

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It’s the first of its kind, fully digital freight exchange - and it took us both over a year to make this work seamlessly - 100% of the time.

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It’s the biggest and most involved integration we’ve ever done at AscendTMS, as the workflow has to account for EVER SINGLE OCCURRENCE that can happen with a load from start to finish.

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THE RESULT? The process efficiency and cost saving is something I’ve never seen before. It's amazing! It matches, vets, transits, tracks, and settles with NO human involvement needed. At scale, this WILL change the industry – especially as more fully digital freight marketplaces come online (my guess is there will be 3 or 4 “winning” digital marketplaces or “exchanges” over time - but this is THE first - and it works like magic).

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Yes - brokers can still “manually" post to DAT, Truckstop, 123Loadboard, and many more in AscendTMS, if they want. But why would anyone manually post and pray anymore? Most brokers will try DAT's Convoy Platform and quickly fall in love with a complete end to end digital solution - and NEVER go back to manual "posting and praying" again.

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Post and pray is dead.

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DEAD!

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AscendTMS is the only multi-tenant TMS that supports the Convoy Platform. So, ANYONE - you - can try it for free, right now, no matter what TMS platform you use at your brokerage.

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You just need a free AscendTMS account at TheFreeTMS.com (it takes 13 seconds - we've timed it) and you can experience your first FULLY digital freight transactions.

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No cost. No technical setup process. No wait.

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Watch the 30 second video at HERE and then try it out- right here, right now!

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The new freight wars will be waged inside these no-touch freight marketplaces and exchanges - and YOUR FUTURE WILL BE 100% DIGITAL.

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DAT Freight & Analytics and AscendTMS' objective is to give EVERY broker and carrier - no matter their size - access to their 100% “no touch” Convoy Platform digital freight marketplace.

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Trust us, it’s impressive.

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VERY impressive!

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Try it right now - and be amazed!

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Tim Higham

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