| A Competitive Yet Lucrative Field | | | | online to gain a full understanding of the business |
| One thing that you must be aware of, is that there | | | | before they begin their job search. Also, you will |
| are successful freight brokers and not so successful | | | | need to pass a test to become a licensed freight |
| freight brokers. Nothing points up this fact better | | | | broker and and a FBT academy can better prepare |
| then one stark statistic on the average freight | | | | you for it. |
| brokers employment rate. Fully half of the 4000 | | | | More Knowledge Required Today |
| freight brokers that are working in the U.S. are | | | | With skyrocketing fuel prices and the slacking |
| employed full time. | | | | economy leaving more freight companies keeping a |
| New Technologies | | | | better watch on their bottom line, the days of |
| Traditionally, freight brokers have trained on the job | | | | someone talking their way into a job as a freight |
| and this is probably the reason that half of them are | | | | broker are simply long gone. To land a job now, a |
| sitting at home while the other half is working. Just | | | | freight broker must have a full grasp on computer |
| as with many other lines of work, as new | | | | skills and be familiar with the computer software that |
| computerized technologies began to be implemented, | | | | is commonly used in freight brokering. Also, they |
| those who were unfamiliar with them had to take a | | | | must have an understanding of marketing, simple |
| back seat to those who were. | | | | accounting, budgeting and people management, just |
| Be Better Prepared | | | | to name a few of the subjects they also must be |
| This is why more people now are attending freight | | | | familiar with. |
| broker training academies, either where they live, or | | | | |