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When considering different pieces of transport software for freight brokers (also known as a TMS or a transportation management system), it’s critical to consider ROI. As a business owner, even if you’re just starting out, you understand …
One of the main reasons your customers choose to outsource their freight shipping is because they can’t get the same rates or deals that you can for shipments. In addition to that, they place their trust in your business that you can …
Starting a freight brokerage business can certainly seem like a mountain of a task—and it is. Look, I’m not going to pretend that starting and running your own business is simple, straightforward, or in any way easy. It’s hard. It takes …
When it comes to the world of freight brokerage, margins are thin on the best of days. Though working hard to achieve efficiency (and to keep operational costs down) is crucial to success, supply chain optimization (for freight …
In the Less-Than-Truckload world, businesses succeed on razor thin margins. As Jeff Bezos once said, “Your margin is my opportunity.” To prevent your competitors from seizing the opportunities in your margins, you need an efficient, …
Looking for a new third party logistics software can be a headache, especially once you start comparing the pricing. What’s worth paying more for? What’s not? What’s worth paying for at all? When it comes to the 3PL …
Let’s talk about how to be a freight broker who has carriers and shippers alike beating down their door for business. It’s an unfortunate truth of our industry that quality can vary widely from one freight broker to the next. It’s not …
I get it, you’re busy. But that’s no excuse for not utilizing one of the easiest, and fastest ways you could be getting better rates on each of your shipments! RateShare is one of those advanced features you don’t get from free …
Load boards, for brokers, are often a simple, quick tool to find a handful of business when times are tight. And unfortunately, it seems like times are tighter and tighter these days. The life of a broker is a life lived in the margins, at …
We’ve been on a bit of an efficiency kick lately — it’s a topic that constantly comes up around our office as we consider how to perfect logistics management for brokers and how to help them become as lean as possible. You see, in the …
The transportation management system industry is saturated with subpar TMS solutions, but we think we’ve got the best one out there in Brokerware™. We might be tooting our own horn a little bit here, but hey… Toot toot. When we decided to …
If you think days and weeks of transportation management system software training is just a painful reality, just part of implementing a new TMS, then take that idea… Ball it up tightly. And toss it out the window. The entire point of …
When it comes to freight software features, your transportation management system (TMS) should have a small core of key features — and these features can make the difference between successfully implementing a new TMS… And failing utterly. …
Whether you’re a new transportation brokerage or you’ve been around a while, there’s one thing you need to effectively (and efficiently) run your business. That’s a transportation management system. When is it worth investing more than the …
You know you need software to help you manage your business. These days, transporting freight anywhere requires more than just a paper trail – it needs to be digital, and it needs to provide a wealth of information both for your …
What are API’s and why should you care? In this article, I will explain what API’s are and why they’re relevant to your business. API stands for Application Programming Interface. Every computer program or website on …
Finding a good solution for Transportation Management Systems TMS can be a mind numbing experience. I have put together some useful tips for what to look out for from my years of being in the software, and transportation …
The latest trend in TMS platforms with regards to rating engines/pricing LTL freight is web services or API.