
The introductory session outlines essential setup, prospecting, and sales calls for starting a freight brokerage, including equipment, internet requirements, building a shipper and carrier database, and effective scripts.
Learn how to prospect and script calls, gather essential shipment details (contact, emails, cargo type, weights, routes), calculate distance and price, and manage paperwork and carrier outreach.
This lesson covers assembling a shipper package with mcu certification, trust fund, cargo insurance, and w-9; posting cargos on load boards and pricing spot and contract rates, plus eld basics.
Master freight broker basics, including trailer types, shipper relations, lane selection, exclusive rights, priority cargo, and daily customer prospecting to optimize rates and profitability.
Discover step-by-step freight broker training strategies for pricing loads, negotiating with shippers and carriers, and maintaining reliability through per-mile pricing, reefer needs, and load-board relationships.
Calculate cargo cost before outreach, complete setup packages, and coordinate dispatch with confirmations using a transportation management system to build lasting carrier relationships.
Execute profitable freight brokerage by prioritizing cargo, posting loads, and using the dashboard to locate available trucks. Understand double brokerage risks and build carrier lists for reliable transport.
Learn how to perform carrier due diligence, verify insurance and contracts, set load information, and track shipments to prevent damage and ensure compliant freight brokerage.
Differentiate freight broker, broker agent, and cargo agent roles, and learn how they coordinate shipments, registrations, insurance, and marketing through social media and LinkedIn.
Explore how cargo transportation evolved in america and canada and how freight brokers connect consignor and consignee with reliable carriers, earning commissions while safeguarding client interests.
Learn to start a freight brokerage by choosing a shipping brand name, forming an LLC or partnership, obtaining EIN and W-9, and securing permits, bonds, cargo insurance, and FMC approvals.
Requirements
Good Attitude
Open Mind
Willing to take action
Description
This training will take you through the steps of becoming a Freight Broker or Freight Broker Agent.
Start your owen bussiness or working on Broker Company
Who this course is for:
Owner Operators*
Get Direct Load from Shipper
Any Size Trucking Company
Brokerage Owners and Owner Operator
If you want change speciality
Freight Dispatchers - Want To Transition To A Freight Broker Agent
Anyone To Become A Freight Broker or Freight Broker Agent
What are some topics that you cover:
History
Mobile Office
Prospecting
Step by Step
Prospect Calls
Shippers Package
Calculating Rates
Invoices
Bank Requrements
And more...
*Owner Operators with their own authority will find this course very helpful. If you can cut out the broker, which is the middle man, you can have more money in your pocket.
Become part of the exciting trucking, freight logistics, and transportation industries as a licensed freight broker or as a freight broker agent. Freight broker training will help you learn the skills you need to be a successful Freight Broker/Agent. From licensing and operations to sales and marketing, you'll learn the basics of how to run a domestic freight brokerage or agency in the United States.
Freight brokerage is a growing, service-based industry. As a freight agent or broker, you connect shippers and manufacturers with transportation companies and manage those shipments. Entrepreneur magazine has rated the freight brokerage business as one of the top home-based businesses to own, and a Wall Street Journal article cited freight brokering and logistics as the largest growing sector of the transportation industry.
Written by freight brokerage specialists, this freight broker course will provide you with the knowledge and resources needed to break into the shipping industry. From transportation law, contracts, and insurance, to setting up and running your own business, this is the best online freight broker training available.
Job Opportunity and Resources
Brooke Transportation Training Solutions hosts a weekly event called Resource Friday, which includes a virtual option held one Friday a month, exclusively for their graduates. During this virtual option, all of our freight broker graduates have the opportunity to join in on a broker-agent resource day, to hear participating brokers give presentations regarding agent opportunities with their company. Additionally, the graduates are provided with additional valuable resources that can significantly benefit them in their freight brokerage/agency operations. Brooke Transportation is the only training provider currently offering this excellent resource.