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.

Amazon this month rolled out its freight brokerage operation nationwide, a strategic move that not only brings the company into competition with other large digital brokerages like Uber Freight and ...

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In the not-so-distant future, matching loads with trucks could be as easy as catching a ride across town with the Uber app. In fact, Uber Freight is among a number of technology companies trying to ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kewill (LSE: KWL), a leading provider of solutions that simplify global trade and logistics, today announced that it is teaming with UPS to deliver a single ...

This is the fourth in a series of blogs on Technology in Transportation. The three previous articles appeared in 2013 and featured 5 interesting companies, FreightSnap, Freightopolis, QuoteMyTruckload ...

Role: Freight brokers act as an intermediary between companies that need to transport goods and the transportation providers themselves. When companies need to ship large quantities of goods to ...

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 ...