diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 888b8539..0d96abf8 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Imports:
     methods,
     rlang
 Suggests: 
+    data.table,
     DBItest (>= 1.7.2.9001),
     decor,
     readr,
diff --git a/R/dbConnect_MariaDBDriver.R b/R/dbConnect_MariaDBDriver.R
index 595fb2dd..f3f814d2 100644
--- a/R/dbConnect_MariaDBDriver.R
+++ b/R/dbConnect_MariaDBDriver.R
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ dbConnect_MariaDBDriver <- function(
   }
 
   if (isTRUE(load_data_local_infile)) {
-    if (!rlang::is_installed("readr")) {
-      stopc("`load_data_local_infile = TRUE` requires the readr package.")
+    if (!rlang::is_installed("data.table")) {
+      stopc("`load_data_local_infile = TRUE` requires the data.table package.")
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/R/table.R b/R/table.R
index 8c960edc..195b573b 100644
--- a/R/table.R
+++ b/R/table.R
@@ -61,23 +61,23 @@ db_append_table <- function(conn, name, value, warn_factor = TRUE, safe = TRUE,
   sql <- paste0(
     "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ", dbQuoteString(conn, path), "\n",
     "IGNORE\n",
+    "FIELDS TERMINATED BY ", dbQuoteString(conn, "\t"), "\n",
+    "OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY ", dbQuoteString(conn, '"'), "\n",
+    "LINES TERMINATED BY ", dbQuoteString(conn, if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") "\r\n" else "\n"), "\n",
     "INTO TABLE ", quoted_name, "\n",
     "CHARACTER SET utf8 \n",
     "(", paste0(colnames, collapse = ", "), ")",
     set
   )
 
-  file <- file(path, "wb")
-  on.exit(close(file))
-
-  readr::write_delim(
-    csv_quote(value, warn_factor, conn), file, quote = "none", delim = "\t", na = "\\N",
-    col_names = FALSE
+  data.table::fwrite(
+    csv_quote(value, warn_factor, conn), path,
+    sep = "\t", na = "\\N", logical01 = TRUE,
+    col.names = FALSE
   )
 
   # Close connection manually, unlink when done to save disk space
   on.exit(unlink(path), add = FALSE)
-  close(file)
 
   if (safe) {
     if (transact) {
@@ -104,10 +104,6 @@ db_append_table <- function(conn, name, value, warn_factor = TRUE, safe = TRUE,
       dbCommit(conn)
     }
 
-    # Manual cleanup
-    unlink(path)
-    on.exit(NULL, add = FALSE)
-
     out
   } else {
     dbExecute(conn, sql)
@@ -152,8 +148,10 @@ csv_quote_one <- function(x, conn) {
       x <- formatC(x, digits = 17, format = "E")
     }
     x[is.na(x_orig) | is.infinite(x_orig)] <- NA_character_
-  } else if (is.logical(x)) {
-    x <- as.character(as.integer(x))
+    # No need to quote logical values manually as data.table::fwrite provides
+    # options for handling that
+    # } else if (is.logical(x)) {
+    #   x <- as.character(as.integer(x))
   } else if (inherits(x, "Date")) {
     x <- as.character(x)
   } else if (inherits(x, "difftime")) {