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 recently had a chance to record a conversation with ...

When it comes to satellite truck and trailer tracking, Dave Sward, Vice-President and General Manager of TransCore’s 3sixty Fleet Management service, speaks with facts. Here are a few takeaways from the first two segments of this four-part interview recorded in June 2007.   TransCore’s satellite asset-tracking technology goes back to ...

In a previous, recorded conversation with Richard Fink, a partner at General Transportation, a freight brokerage in Portland, Oregon , specializing in non-asset based multi-modal freight throughout the US and Canada since 1990, he shared with us the differences that technology has made in holding down back office costs ...