Brokerage Opportunity

Hi Guys,

My partner and I are working on creating a brokerage company that is streamlined with home-grown software to eliminate a lot of the time spent filling out paperwork/placing phone calls. By eliminating a lot of the time spent doing these things we feel we can offer loads for a much lower price and make up for it in higher volumes of loads brokered.

We specialize in the software design/development but are looking for an experienced broker (preferably in the Madison, WI area as we're located here, but we're open to anyone) to partner with who:
1. Has existing relationships with shipping companies/truckers
2. Is looking to be a part of a disruptive start-up/on the innovative edge of the trucking industry
3. Isn't quite satisfied with their current revenues and is interested in making potentially much more than they are currently

Feel free to respond to me via email - thomas.hammond89@gmail.com

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Tom

 

Interesting thoughts. You are correct that it would use some functionality that already exists out there in transportation management systems, but it would also combine a lot of the existing loadboard functionality as well.

The idea is that a trucker can seamlessly find a load and accept it in seconds, "filling out" all of the paperwork with an electronic signature.

Where I think the real power is, is the "Plan My Week" and "Plan My Month" functionality I want to add after we have enough loads being posted daily to do so - basically it would allow a trucker to map out where he is going to end up with each load and then find other loads to get him back home. Also estimations of the total profits you'd make based on current gas prices. Finally there'd be a "Make Me Money" button which would look for the most lucrative loads matching your equipment and destination city and display those.

The idea is that it would be really easy - but I want to make it so that truckers depend upon the service so much that it would be far more work for them to not use our service . Everytime they accept a load, they'll only pay the flat fee of $20-25 which really isn't much considering how easy it would be for them. However for us, if we move 140,000 loads/day+ like you see on Getloaded/DAT/Internet Truckstop, at 20-25 bucks per load we'd be looking at gross revenues $1B+.

 

I think many things can and will change based on the actual trucking business. Using agile development it's not hard to accommodate that. In fact, working in a fluid, dynamic and constantly changing industry is where agile development excels.

Simply put, I think we can create something that will generate value, but we need someone with the necessary experience to help us build that useful product.