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White Paper– Don’t Let Inefficiencies Eat Your Bottom Line: 8 Areas to Improve Your Freight Brokerage

This Workbook will help you evaluate the eight key areas in your transportation process where inefficiencies and bottlenecks threaten your company’s future.  By optimizing these areas, you could reduce workloads by 50%, empower your team, and boost your bottom line. You’ll find practical discussion prompts and worksheets to uncover hidden labor and resource costs, identify […]

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Thomas Wasson Thursday, October 19, 2023

Loaded and Rolling: Convoy shuts down

Seattle-based digital freight broker Convoy on Wednesday canceled all shipments from its marketplace and company representatives promised more details of a business transition were forthcoming. By Thursday, company employees were told in a meeting that Convoy was “closing down its core business operations.”

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Brian Straight Thursday, August 17, 2017

After years of trying, are digital freight brokers finally here to stay?

The latest craze in logistics is the “uberization of trucking,” i.e. digital freight brokers (DFM). In reality, though, DFMs are not new, with the first iteration of them appearing in the early 2000s with companies such as Power2Ship and TransMarkets. They have gained steam lately thanks to technological advances, but there is still some question about whether they are here to stay this time.

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