Welcome
to the OFL Team Intranet!
This is a living, breathing work in progress, meant to arm us with the tools,
tips, tricks and info we need to be successful!
Suggestions are always welcome!
Since learning is a continuous process, you should consider getting in the habit of watching videos, reading industry-related journals and listening to podcasts. Be a student of Logistics and Sales.
Below are lists of links to popular Freight Industry professionals Videos and Podcasts.
VIDEO LIBRARY
Dennis Brown – https://www.youtube.com/@FreightBrokers
Brandon Scott – https://www.youtube.com/@brandonthefreightbroker
Freight 360 – https://www.youtube.com/@Freight360
Luis Uribe – https://www.youtube.com/@freightskills
World Of Logistics – https://www.youtube.com/@LogisticsWorldz
PODCASTS
Freightonomics – https://freightonomics.simplecast.com/
Put That Coffee Down – https://put-that-coffee-down.simplecast.com/
Freight Caviar – https://freightcaviar.com/podcasts/
Logistics of Logistics – https://www.thelogisticsoflogistics.com/latest-episodes/
Freightcasts – https://freightcasts.simplecast.com/episodes
Remember that a large part of logistics is sales, and a large part of sales is mindset.
BROKER AGENT TIPS
- Diversifying Your Revenue
- Scaling and Efficiency
- The Human Touch
- The Art of the Negotiation
- Freight Forwarding vs Freight Brokering
- Building a Network of Carriers
- Handling Claims and Disputes
- The Impacts of Severe Weather
- Marketing a Brokerage
- Working with the Big Guys
- The Value of Freight Brokering
- Personalized Value
- Who's in Your Network?
- Is Your Script Ready?
- Rolling with Objections
INDUSTRY NEWS
- EX-NFL player, business partners indicted on PPP fraud charges
- Sensitive DOT documents found vulnerable to hackers
- China bulk carrier suspected in Baltic cable damage
- Supply Chain Bingo; Trump’s tariff threat; hacking autonomous trucks | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?
- October freight traffic mixed at Gulf Coast ports
- Black Friday is not canceled, but shoppers want even better deals
- Great Dane settles with DOJ over hiring practices for some non-US citizens
- US warns of cyberthreat from China container cranes
- Avianca faces delivery delays for Airbus converted freighters
- RNG: Trucks or stations? Which comes first?
- The Curve and the next freight cycle
- Walmart driver wins defamation case against retailer for almost $35 million
- Amazon workers plan global protests on Black Friday, Cyber Monday
- Honoring contracts puts brokers in position to take advantage of the spot market
- Purolator replacing 70-year-old freighters in Canada with ATR72-500