DO: Exercise due diligence in hiring carriers. Check the insurance, operating authority and safety rating. Get a copy of the carrier's insurance certificate, and check to be sure that the name on the policy matches the company name on the operating authority. Sign a broker-carrier agreement that specifies that the carrier will comply with ...

Rate Index™ Pro for Bulk Rate Pricing and Real-time Negotiations Based on 12 Million Actual Freight Bills   Respond to RFPs quickly and painlessly with Rate Index Pro.  Anyone involved in truckload lane rate pricing and contract negotiations will appreciate the speed and efficiency of this web-based service. Perform single-lane lookups ...

What a great way to kick off our new Broker Newsletter: We've been named Global Call Center of the Year by the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI).  The award is for small-to-medium-sized call centers, and we were picked from 5,000 different call centers in 50 countries. Kudos to our call center team members for ...

Hi. My name is Janice Compton and I run TransCore's account management department. We're the folks that help you use TransCore tools and services. We're introducing this newsletter to help your broker business get the most out of TransCore products such as CarrierWatch, 3sixty Freight Match, and 3sixty Operations Management Suite.   Each ...

Freight brokering is a cash-flow intensive business.  ''Small'' back office numbers can add up to a significant figure that comes off the bottom-line.  Nobody knows this better than Richard Fink, one of three partners at General Transportation in Portland, Oregon. We talked with Richard about how technology has ...