Group 12 of 13
Logistics and Freight Agencies
Freight brokerages are the purest middleman model on the map: match a shipper's load with a carrier's truck, take the spread, touch nothing. The entire industry is licensed by the FMCSA, so the roster of legitimate brokers is public, and checking it takes minutes.
1 categoriesEst. 20,000 to 27,000 US entitiesExplainers live
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Comparisons touching this group
Cross-groupComparison
The Margin Map: net margins across 12 agency types, compared
Every agency sits in the middle and takes a cut. The size of the cut that survives as profit varies by a factor of ten. Here is the map.
StaffingLogisticsComparison
Staffing agency vs. freight brokerage: two middleman models, opposite economics
One rents out people, one matches loads to trucks. Both live in the middle. Almost nothing else about their businesses works the same way.