The sales process of freight brokers and motor carriers often involves multiple departments such as pricing, operations and sales as well as time-consuming visits, phone calls and emails. In the ...

Demand for freight-hauling still lags, and spot-market rates have stayed well below their 2021 and 2022 performance and even their five-year averages—despite a recent uptick. But brokers remain ...

Scam loads are on the rise. Fraudulent rate confirmations—fake documents posing as real broker contracts—are being used to trick carriers into hauling freight they’ll never get paid for. These scams ...

According to Truckstop.com research, nearly 80% of owner-operators indicate they just don’t like to negotiate rates with a broker. That may be the case, but it's a fact that a better understanding of ...

Freight brokerage firms are anticipating that contract rates will keep rising this year, with a slowdown not expected until year’s end. “I think we’re going to definitely see continued strengths ...

Stubbornly weak freight market conditions have been placing financial strain on third-party logistics companies for the past couple of years with an oversupply of truck capacity driving down rates and ...