How to Start a Hauling & Delivery Business

Hauling & Delivery Business: Without a pickup truck or trailer, few people have the means to haul large goods, debris and trash. If they can’t enlist the help of a friend who owns hauling equipment, they must turn to professionals for hauling and delivery needs. A hauling and delivery business…

How to Start a Small Freight Hauling Business

Starting a small freight hauling business can be complicated to implement. There are many licensing, registration and insurance issues to tackle before getting trucks on the road and starting a Small Freight Hauling business. However, once those aspects have been covered, owning your own frieght hauling business can be very…

Becoming an owner operator

As an owner operator, you enjoy more freedom from supervision the company driver experiences. You’re able to set your own hours. You can take time off when you want. But those freedoms, the big trade-off: the need to be financially responsible and self disciplining. The challenge is great, but for…

Selecting your business services provider

Services Provider: As an independent business owner your primary goal is to make more money that’s why you made the decision to purchase or lease your own truck the challenge lies in holding on to more of the money you make especially as the expenses increase you have to pay…

How to Start a Small Freight Business

Small Freight Business:There is a broad pattern of merchandise trade among and within nations. According to “Entrepreneur” magazine, the freight brokerage business is a billion-dollar industry. A small cargo container and freight company works with trade goods manufacturers and suppliers, freight brokerage companies and freight forwarding companies to provide cargo…

What Is a Surety Bond?

A Surety bond: Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. Like insurance, surety bonds put the resources of huge underwriters behind corporations or individuals, allowing them to conduct business while offering peace of mind to their customers. Features There are three…

How to Become a Mortgage and Life Insurance Broker in San Francisco

Offering mortgage clients life insurance coverage is a smart business strategy for mortgage brokers. Two separate licenses are required to be both mortgage and life insurance brokers in San Francisco, California. Mortgage brokers receive licensing from the California Department of Real Estate while life insurance licensing falls under the authority…

Becoming a Truck Freight Broker

A truck freight broker helps match manufacturing companies with trucking companies. A successful broker will be able to set up truck pick-ups and deliveries, maintain accurate shipping records and ensure that all freight arrives safely and on time. Many brokers work from home and have a list of customer contacts…

List of Primary Ocean Freight Brokers

Primary Ocean Freight Brokers: Trustworthy primary ocean freight brokers include Maersk Sealand, Old Dominion Freight and United Parcel Service (UPS). Sealand and Maersk have been shipping ocean freight in 20, 40 and 48 foot containers since the inception of modern organized trucking in 1955. United Parcel Service A Sealand shipping…

Freight Broker Associations

Freight Broker Associations: Freight brokers provide services to cargo shippers by supplying the companies with competent haulers to transport cargo either by rail, truck, ocean tanker or airplane. These brokers tailor transportation services for the shipper’s needs. Industry professionals have the option of joining several international organizations that help them…

Ohio Mortgage Broker Act

The Ohio Mortgage Broker Act defines the role of a mortgage broker in the State of Ohio and establishes requirements for obtaining a mortgage broker’s license. Prior to obtaining their license, prospective mortgage brokers must fulfill requirements including prior experience in the field, and upon receiving the license they must…

Duties of a Mortgage Broker

  They act as an intermediary between the lender and the borrower. They sell loans on behalf of the organizations and businesses. The brokers are regulated by local jurisdictions and are typically paid on a commission basis. This article provides an overview about the range of duties a qualified mortgage…

The Effect of the Internet on Transportation Logistics

Transportation logistics is an integral part of a company’s supply chain. Supply chain activities include sourcing, production and logistics as well as the information system required to coordinate supply chain activities. The Internet is an integral part of the information system needed to coordinate activities. Identification The effect the Internet…

How to Get a Freight Broker

Old black-and-white movies about faraway places often included some shady character who loosely described his employment with the single word “freight,” or a more exotic title like “customs broker.” In spite of the seedy reputation of those characters, the freight broker or freight forwarder is federally licensed professional whose continued…

How to Get a Freight Forward Broker License

Freight Forward Broker : Freight brokers are agents who help customers arrange the transportation and delivery of goods via licensed carriers. Brokers are not required to register as carriers as long as they do not take possession of the goods in transit.They do not carry cargo insurance and do not…

Truck Broker Training

How to get Truck Broker Training? A truck broker, or freight broker, is the “middleman” in shipping goods across the country. These brokers work as liaisons with shippers, who typically are manufacturing companies or agricultural businesses, and drivers, many of whom work as independent contractors. Truck brokers work to gain…

Broker’s Surety Bond Regulations

Surety Bond Regulations: A surety bond is required in a variety of situations involving contracts, commercial activity and licensing. With regard to broker surety bonds, there are three categories of bonds: freight broker bond, insurance broker bond, and mortgage broker bond. Each category of broker bonds is regulated under different…

Freight Broker Surety Bonds?

Freight broker surety bonds are purchased from authorized bond dealers by freight broker companies. A freight broker is a person who serves as a liaison between an authorized freight carrier and a company that wants to ship goods. A freight broker purchases surety bonds, as a form of insurance, and…

How to Verify a Freight Broker Bond

Freight Broker Bond: If you’re new to working with freight brokers, you may be confused about the role of their surety bond. From the Carrier’s standpoint, the surety bond is in place as protection in case the broker refuses to pay for services rendered. Always verify a freight broker’s bond…

Online School for Trucking Brokers

Online School: Freight Broker Training Our freight broker license course is unmatched in the online training industry, because we give our students many tools that other online broker courses do not offer, like load board access, transportation database, license filing service and we sell our broker courses for half of…