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CT Logistics and the money hiding in your freight bill
A Cleveland company has spent a century checking what it costs to move things. Its more interesting trick is using yesterday’s invoice to change tomorrow’s shipment.
R2 Logistics built the software. Then kept answering the phone.
A freight broker with its own transportation software, R2 Logistics sells a practical pairing: more carrier choices and someone accountable when the shipment gets complicated.
Averitt’s best shortcut is a better map
The red trucks are easy to spot. The more interesting business is rearranging the journey: fewer detours, closer warehouses, and one partner responsible for the handoffs.
Trinity Logistics sells the part a truck cannot carry
A freight broker’s most useful cargo is certainty. Trinity Logistics has built its business around the people, software, and patient relationships that make a shipment less of a guessing game.
R+L Carriers and the art of sharing a truck
A furniture hauler became a family-owned freight network by making room for other people’s cargo. The revealing details are a wall inside a trailer, a $211.5 million terminal bid, and four employee resorts.
FreightWise Put a Price on Freight's Blind Spots - Then Bought a TMS Marked for Shutdown
The Tennessee logistics company sells software, freight expertise and an unusual promise: expose the cost hiding between a quote and the invoice. Its biggest bet was rescuing Kuebix and rebuilding it for the shippers enterprise software tends to overlook.
The Software Making 50,000 Daily Shipping Decisions Before the Label Printer Blinks
ProShip lives in the split second between an order and a shipping label, choosing the carrier, service, promise date and paperwork. That unglamorous decision can save a retailer millions - or turn peak season into a queue.
GlobalTranz Started With Zero Dollars. Here’s the Freight Playbook That Made It a $930 Million Company
A Navy veteran used prepaid eBay shipments and a homemade rate engine to drag freight brokerage online. The clever part was not owning trucks - it was turning fragmented capacity, independent agents and software into a machine that private equity could not stop buying.
FreightSaver Sold the Middle-Market Freight Playbook - Then Borrowed a Bigger Network
A 52-person California 3PL made freight software feel human, cracked the Inc. 5000 and sold to Echo for an undisclosed price. Its most useful lesson is not about trucks - it is about packaging high-touch service so it can scale.