For existing freight brokerages
Keep Your Freight Business. Lose the Brokerage Overhead.
Keep focusing on your customers, freight operations and growth while Freight-Tec provides much of the infrastructure and back-office support required to operate a brokerage.
Built for established brokerage owners who want to grow without continuing to carry every operational burden themselves.
Up to 70%
Gross-profit split
Reduced Overhead
Core brokerage costs carried by Freight-Tec
Infrastructure Included
TMS, load boards, carrier setup
Back-Office Support
Carrier pay, billing and collections
Since 1985
Established Freight-Tec platform
What changes
You keep the business. You remove the burden.
Owning your brokerage
What you carry today
- •Carrier payments
- •Collecting customer payments
- •Operating capital / cash flow
- •Customer credit risk
- •Claims management
- •TMS / software
- •Load boards
- •Insurance / bonds
- •Accounting / billing
- •Carrier setup
- •Compliance administration
- •Back-office staff
- •Banking relationships
- •Technology maintenance
- •Administrative work
As a Freight-Tec agency
You stay focused on
- Customer relationships
- Sales
- Pricing
- Freight operations
- Growth
Freight-Tec provides applicable brokerage infrastructure such as
- ✓Carrier pay
- ✓Customer billing / collections
- ✓TMS
- ✓Load boards
- ✓Carrier setup / support
- ✓Accounting / billing
- ✓Claims support
- ✓Compliance / brokerage infrastructure
- ✓Back-office administration
- ✓Operating infrastructure
You keep
Customers + sales + operations + growth
You remove
Overhead + administration + infrastructure burden
Brokerage economics
What Would Your Brokerage Keep as a Freight-Tec Agency?
Enter your current gross profit, retained percentage and monthly operating costs. Illustrative estimate only — actual compensation and expenses may vary.
Your current brokerage
Monthly brokerage costs
Your monthly overhead
$0
Your annual overhead
$0
As a Freight-Tec agency
Up to 70% GP split
+ Brokerage infrastructure included*
Included with Freight-Tec
- ✓TMSFREE
- ✓Load boardsFREE
- ✓Admin / back officeFREE
- ✓Carrier setup / supportFREE
- ✓Accounting / billingFREE
- ✓Brokerage infrastructureINCLUDED
- ✓Claims supportINCLUDED
- ✓Compliance supportINCLUDED
You could keep
+$0 / year
+$0 per month
0% more estimated retained earnings
Your estimated difference reflects both the change in retained split and the brokerage expenses you would no longer carry.
Where the difference comes from
Overhead eliminated
$0
estimated brokerage overhead removed / year*Illustrative comparison based on information entered by the user and an assumed Freight-Tec agent split of up to 70%. Actual commission arrangements, included services, eligibility, expenses and compensation may vary. Confirm current Freight-Tec program terms before relying on this estimate.
Beyond overhead
It's Not Just the Money.
What could you stop managing?
Carrier pay
Spend less time managing the carrier-payment cycle.
Customer collections
Reduce time spent chasing receivables.
Claims
Reduce day-to-day claims administration where Freight-Tec support applies.
Back-office staff
Reduce administrative management burden.
Software & systems
Stop maintaining separate brokerage infrastructure.
Cash flow
Reduce pressure tied to funding carrier payments before customer collections.
Cost and risk
Owning the Brokerage Comes With More Than a Commission Split.
Freight-Tec's own brokerage cost material frames the total startup and operating requirement around $300,000–$400,000.
- Operating capital
- Insurance / bonds
- TMS
- Load boards
- Accounting
- Claims
- Credit management
- Employees
- Legal
- Marketing
- Technology
Figures come from Freight-Tec's existing brokerage cost material and are illustrative estimates, not quotes.
| Estimated cost | What it covers |
|---|---|
| $450 / month | Posting boards — ITS, DAT, PE |
| $3,000 | Transportation attorney |
| $3,000–$10,000 | Website design and development |
| $7,000 | Credit / risk assessment and management |
| $5,000 + $2,500 deposit | $100k bond |
| $8,000+ | Insurance — contingent cargo, E&O, general liability |
| $8,000+ | Claims management |
| $2,000–$20,000 | Marketing information |
| $10,000–$20,000 | Accounting department |
| $25,000–$200,000 | TMS software startup and yearly maintenance (plus 50–75 hours) |
| $250,000 | Cash flow for growth, bad debt and claims |
| $300,000–$400,000 | Realistic total to open the doors |
Why convert
Why Give Up the Brokerage Authority but Keep the Business?
Less overhead
Eliminate or reduce brokerage infrastructure costs.
Less cash-flow pressure
Freight-Tec assumes applicable brokerage infrastructure and payment responsibilities.
Less administration
Spend less time running the back office.
Less risk
Reduce direct exposure to brokerage-level administrative and financial obligations where Freight-Tec assumes those responsibilities.
More time to sell
Put more owner time into customers, pricing, operations and growth.
Keep your customer relationships
You continue serving the accounts you built, under the terms of the Freight-Tec agency agreement.
Before and after
What Changes, What Doesn't
What changes
- •Brokerage infrastructure
- •Back-office responsibilities
- •Carrier pay administration
- •Billing and collections administration
- •Software / infrastructure responsibility
- •Compliance burden
- •Cash-flow requirements
What doesn't
- ✓Your relationships
- ✓Your selling
- ✓Your freight knowledge
- ✓Your day-to-day customer service
- ✓Your ability to grow your book
- ✓Your entrepreneurial upside
Specific responsibilities are governed by the Freight-Tec agency agreement.
Typical process
How a Brokerage Conversion Works
A typical process — exact onboarding steps are confirmed with a Freight-Tec representative.
Confidential discussion
Review current brokerage structure and goals.
Economic review
Compare current costs, split and retained earnings.
Transition plan
Map customers, workflows and systems.
Freight-Tec onboarding
Set up agency, technology and operating processes.
Operate & grow
Focus on customers, sales and freight while Freight-Tec provides the brokerage infrastructure.
Brokerage FAQ
Questions brokerage owners ask
What happens to my existing customers?
You continue working with the customers you built. Exact terms around accounts and transition are covered in the Freight-Tec agency agreement — a Freight-Tec representative will walk through them with you before anything is signed.
Can my employees transition with me?
Many brokerage owners bring key salespeople or coordinators with them. Staffing arrangements vary by agency and are reviewed case by case.
What brokerage expenses could I eliminate?
Typically the core brokerage infrastructure: TMS, load boards, accounting and billing systems, carrier setup and compliance administration. Use the calculator on this page to estimate your own figure.
Who pays the carriers?
Freight-Tec handles carrier pay through its brokerage infrastructure, so you are not funding carriers out of your own working capital while you wait for customer payments.
Who bills and collects from customers?
Customer billing and collections run through Freight-Tec's back office rather than your own accounting staff.
What technology is included?
TMS, load board access and the operating systems used to move and document freight are provided as part of the agency model.
How long does a transition take?
It depends on the size of your book, your current contracts and systems. Most conversations start with a confidential review before any timeline is set.
Confidential
What Would Your Brokerage Look Like Without the Brokerage Overhead?
See how your current gross profit, operating costs and workload could compare under the Freight-Tec agency model. Prefer the phone? Call (801) 298-7722.