The freight brokerage business involves arranging transportation services between freight companies and the businesses that require their services. The broker finds the best rates given the type of ...

Cash flow problems are a perennial challenge in the trucking industry. The reasons are varied, but topping the list is that shippers often wait for one to two months after a load has been delivered ...

It’s becoming something of a thing in trucking for an existing motor carrier of any size to launch a side business to broker freight. Such a brokerage is typically set up as an independent entity that ...

In some industries, putting your technology front and center is a good way to build excitement and attract new customers. But in logistics, where independent operators outnumber their corporate ...

Zerobroker, a logistics technology firm that lets shippers eliminate fees by connecting directly with carriers without using a freight broker, has raised $6.5 million in a seed round that includes ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Logistics startup Zerobroker has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to ...

Best-in-class brokerage TMS with all the digital features and integrations needed by today’s growth-minded truckload broker With Smart Start, freight brokers go live with a templated installation ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

Convoy, one of the early “Uber for Freight” tech brokerage startups, looks to be a casualty of the freight recession and the investor funding drought. The company this week let most of its employees ...

Digital freight startup Transfix sold its brokerage unit and is resetting itself as a software provider, the latest in a string of setbacks for digital upstarts that only a few years ago threatened to ...

Big leadership changes are afoot at New York-based Transfix, one of the buzziest digital freight-brokerage startups. Drew McElroy, who was CEO from the time he co-founded Transfix in 2013, stepped ...

In the United States, much of commerce relies on moving goods to market on trucks. The way it works is a manufacturer calls a shipping broker with instructions like “I need to get a load of beer to ...