Let's start with a simple truth: there's essentially no difference between the terms 'freight broker' and 'truck broker.' However, 'freight broker' is the term you'll hear most often in the trucking ...

What, exactly, is a freight broker? A page on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s website defines it as “a person or an entity which arranges for the transportation of property by a ...

You’re a small motor carrier, and you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get payment from a freight broker for months. What can you do? That’s the situation many carriers have found themselves in, as ...

If you've found this story, know that you're not the first carrier to have found yourself unpaid for loads hauled for a broker or freight forwarder that has gone broke or, in other cases, had no ...

Jeremy Robison is the president of Tetra Capital, an independent company offering freight bill factoring services to trucking companies of all sizes. He’s dealt with a variety of trucking fiscal ...

Course Code: GES703 Course Hours: 180 Allotted Time to Complete Course: 6 Months Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites to take this course. However, this course focuses solely on U.S. domestic ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The job of a freight broker is to connect shippers who have goods to transport and carriers who have the capacity to move those goods.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Automation, artificial intelligence and data science are transforming freight brokerage operations, increasing productivity and altering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Freight brokers have long been considered intermediaries in the transportation chain, more akin to travel agents than carriers. But in recent years, that role has shifted under the weight of ...