Hiring a GM to Run Your Freight Company: The Reporting Structure That Makes It Work
Every freight company founder eventually hits the same wall: the business needs them less than the business consumes them. The standard answer is hiring a…
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Practical strategies for reducing DSO, recovering missed revenue, and scaling your brokerage operations.
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Preparing a Freight Company for Sale: The Records Buyers Actually Ask For
Most freight company owners think about selling two or three years before they say it out loud. The smart ones spend that quiet period doing…
Buying a Trucking Company: The Back-Office Diligence That Protects You
A trucking company looks like the easiest freight business to buy. The assets are parked in the yard, the drivers are on the payroll, and…
Intercompany Freight Billing: How Sister Companies Bill Each Other Without Losing Margin Visibility
Every multi-entity freight company has the same load somewhere in its history: the brokerage covered a customer shipment with its own truck, the driver delivered…
Buying a Freight Brokerage: How to Validate the Back Office Before You Close
A freight brokerage for sale always looks clean in the deck. Revenue chart up and to the right, a customer list with recognizable names, an…
When the Owner Steps Back: Independent Reporting for Freight Companies in Transition
At some point, most freight company owners want the business to run without them. Some retire outright. Some hire a general manager and move to…
How Much Does It Cost to Outsource Your Freight Back Office?
Nobody publishes real numbers on this, so here is the honest version: what freight back-office outsourcing costs depends on which of three pricing models you…
Freight Audit Companies vs a Full Back Office: Which Do You Need?
“Freight audit” means two very different things depending on which side of the load you sit on. The freight audit and payment guide breaks down…
NVOCC back office: house bills, master bills, demurrage and per diem
An NVOCC sells as a carrier and buys as a shipper on the same container. How the back office matches house to master bills and recovers demurrage and per diem.
Freight Back-Office Outsourcing Companies: How to Evaluate Them
Search for freight back-office help and you get a wall of companies that all claim the same thing. Some are staffing firms. Some are software…
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