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How To Make Money By Routing Your Freight
When a company decides to transition away from customer-routed freight operations and toward managing these processes in-house, there’s typically a single driving factor.
The Pros and Cons of Routing Your Own Freight
So, your customers route their own freight. To this point, this process has worked well for your business, your customers and your bottom line. You have a specialty, whatever it may be, and providing transportation services isn’t it. Plain and simple.
[Video] The Top 5 Common Problems With Freight Brokers (+ Solutions)
Top 5 Freight Broker Problems (and How to Avoid Them)
Many shippers rely on brokers to find capacity and manage loads, yet not all brokers operate with the same level of transparency, communication, or accountability.
Why Do Line-Haul Rates Vary and How Can You Get More Cost Control?
Wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly what your freight prices are going to be to ship from point A to point B, every time? If only it were that simple. Let’s break down why the answer to “how much will this cost?” is almost always, “it depends.”
What Does Your Freight Broker Do When Something Goes Wrong?
In the transportation industry, there’s one thing we know for sure: somewhere, somehow, something will go wrong. Any transportation provider knows that when dealing with man, machine and Mother Nature, the unexpected is expected. So the next time severe weather rolls in on your freight’s route, a carrier falls through, a truck breaks down or the unexpected happens, pay attention. The way your broker handles the situation may be telling you something.
How To Make Money By Routing Your Freight
When a company decides to transition away from customer-routed freight operations and toward managing these processes in-house, there’s typically a single driving factor.
The Pros and Cons of Routing Your Own Freight
So, your customers route their own freight. To this point, this process has worked well for your business, your customers and your bottom line. You have a specialty, whatever it may be, and providing..
Top 5 Freight Broker Problems (and How to Avoid Them)
Many shippers rely on brokers to find capacity and manage loads, yet not all brokers operate with the same level of transparency, communication, or accountability.
Why Do Line-Haul Rates Vary and How Can You Get More Cost Control?
Wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly what your freight prices are going to be to ship from point A to point B, every time? If only it were that simple. Let’s break down why the answer to “how much will this..
What Does Your Freight Broker Do When Something Goes Wrong?
In the transportation industry, there’s one thing we know for sure: somewhere, somehow, something will go wrong. Any transportation provider knows that when dealing with man, machine and Mother Nature, the..
