| What freight brokers go through to book trucks for | | | | requirements. Sequentially, truckers feel compelled to |
| their loads is often seen as inevitable part of their | | | | call brokers over the phone in order to find out more |
| work routine. Spending countless hours on the phone | | | | details about their loads of interest, such as: additional |
| trying to find available trucks to cover their freight, | | | | stops, required logistic specifications, late and delay |
| then utilize online load-boards for the loads that have | | | | fees, special requirements, minimum cargo insurance, |
| not yet been covered and again spend more hours | | | | payment terms, etc. |
| answering phone calls from numerous freight carriers | | | | Since the first Load-boards have been introduced |
| inquiring more information about the posted loads is | | | | (over ten years ago), these methods have been a |
| just exhausting. | | | | common way to do business in the modern Freight |
| Due to lack of creative work methods, features and | | | | Industry. Accepted by both brokers and carriers as a |
| options from software applications brokers use, | | | | way of completing their allocated daily tasks while |
| (including online load-boards), they have had no choice | | | | handling growing volume of loads, these |
| but to accept these work routines and try to | | | | time-consuming methods have been seen as a |
| manage to carry out their workload on daily basis. | | | | problem calling for a change. The change has come in |
| The online load-boards do not offer appropriate fields | | | | form of the Load-board that offers freight brokers |
| to fully describe loads and elaborate on necessary | | | | and carriers a convenient place where they match |
| load information, in order to filter large percentage of | | | | freight accordingly, without placing phone calls from |
| calls from carriers with inappropriate load | | | | and to each other. |