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Dial-a-Truck (DAT)
Dial-a-Truck (DAT) was the first electronic freight posting service created by brothers Al and Monroe ("Moe") Jubitz in 1978. Truck drivers seeking loads would leave handwritten notes on a bulletin board at the Jubitz Truck Stop (Portland, OR) for shippers and freight brokers seeking truckers to move their freight. Jubitz began posting the loads on a monitor at the truck stop and charging drivers a nominal fee to get the phone number of the company wanting to move freight. By 2001, there were 1200 load monitors in the country powered by DAT Services. Subscribers were provided with access to the DAT Network’s freight load and truck information via fax, voice and internet, as well as the truck stop-based monitors.

On February 3, 2001, TransCore®, a unit of Roper Industries (NYSE: ROP), acquired DAT Services including the 1200 truck stop monitors. DAT Services is now known by the names of its subscription services, which include: 3sixty Freight Match, TruckersEdge, DAT Connect and DAT Partners. The underlying DAT Network has remained a major freight marketplace, hosting 50 million freight loads and trucks per year.

History
In 1958, Monroe A. "Moe" Jubitz, opened Fleet Leasing, Inc., a full-service truck leasing and maintenance company in Portland, OR. Moe expanded his services to provide fuel, food, and accommodations to truckers on the road which is how the Jubitz Truck Stop was born. The Jubitz Truck Stop was expanded in 2000 and is now called the Jubitz Travel Center. It occupies 26 acres and includes restaurants, a hotel, movie theater, gift store, shoe shop, arcade game room, laundromat, postal service, barber shop, business lounge, outpatient medical clinic, chiropractor, gas station, and truck maintenance facility. The Jubitz Travel Center was named "World's Classiest Truck Stop" in 2003 by the Travel Channel. In 2009, it was ranked 66 by Oregon Business out of Oregon's top 150 private companies.