Two big questions that pop up regularly are, "What type of software do I need and is it expensive?" There is a quick answer for these questions.
If you are starting from scratch, you don't need ANY special freight broker software. Here is why: when first starting your business, you main goal is to find customers. The best software in the world won't help you here. To find customers, you do it the old-fashioned way - your earn them one at a time, as the saying goes.
Now AFTER you have established yourself with several solid customers and are getting good loads consistently, you may start to look for freight broker software. You can derive some efficiencies if you have a lot of transactions going on.
You will know what to look for by doing business manually at first. It does not matter how many bells or whistles freight broker software has, you want to stay focused on finding customers at first.
More on this in Part II
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