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Nate Cross and Ben Kowalski discuss freight brokering challenges and strategies.

Nate Cross & Ben Kowalski answer your freight brokering questions and discuss: 🏗️ Pricing steel coil loads and accounting for added challenges 🚛 Fair owner-operator splits, insurance, and operating under your MC 📞 Overcoming the “customer-routed” or “vendor-routed” objection Support Our Sponsors: Togo: Click Here OperFi: Click Here QuikSkope - Get a Free Trial: Click Here DAT One - Brokers & Carriers: Click Here to get 10% off your first year! DAT Outgo Factoring for Carriers: Click...

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Hosts: Nate Cross, Ben Kowalski

Topics covered

• freight brokering
• pricing steel coil loads
• owner-operator splits
• insurance
• customer objections

Keywords

• freight brokering
• steel coil loads
• owner-operator
• insurance
• customer objections

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Togo, OperFi, QuikSkope, DAT One, DAT Outgo

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