When Mike Crawford took over the freight brokerage service line of ITS Logistics in January 2013, he and a small team of people huddled around a Costco conference table in a closetlike office at the ...

The middlemen who match shipments with trucks have been seeing their ranks swell of late, thanks in large part to web-based software programs that have greatly lowered the cost barrier to entry. Among ...

Digital freight broker Uber Freight recently announced it would open up a new platform it calls Broker Access, allowing fellow brokers to post loads and have its freight-matching technology work its ...

Along with increasing technological connections to brokerage partners, independents have seen plenty in the way of increasing demands not only for load tracking (or face a rate reduction, often enough ...

When it comes to the freight broker profession, the myths you can hear can be quite wild — and far from reality. In today’s world of information overload, it’s easy to confuse truth and fiction. When ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Over the last several years, a handful of driving forces have helped progress the business of moving goods from one location to another, ...