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3PL Systems is excited to share an interview with Alyssa Braaksma, who heads Operations at Razor Logistics, a freight brokerage. Alyssa’s father, Mike Johnston, worked as a carrier sales rep before starting a freight brokerage. We learn that Razor's focus is to properly onboard clients and teach them how to quote and classify their freight. If you like freight operations, this is worth checking out.

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One of the best ways to start a business is to work for someone to learn the business. Hope White worked at Home Depot for years learning everything she could about the trucking business. Being a woman and a minority is often harder for most folks to get the courage to start a business. It’s awesome to see White making moves from starting a brokerage, shipping hemp, buying assets, and a warehouse.

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It’s not every day we get to speak with a founder that’s innovating an entire industry. We were lucky enough to pick Craig Fuller’s brain learning all about the FreightWaves founding story.

We found out that Craig’s dad started U.S. Express, which Craig’s brother runs as the CEO with 10,000 + employees. Craig ended up working with his dad at one point on a payments venture which caused tensions within the Fuller family.

Craig got interested in markets day trading and came up with an idea to start FreightWaves by creating a data product and then covering topics in the freight market to give context to their data.

Craig’s dad initially didn’t invest in FreightWaves, but it came full circle when Craig got to interview his father Max on Fuller Speed Ahead. There’s a ton of learnings in this episode as Craig is a true pioneer in the logistics industry.

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3PL Systems is excited to share an interview with the Freight Coach, aka Chris Jolly.  Host Jeremy Thone of 3PL Live got to know Chris and how he ended up coaching sales reps in the freight industry. 

We learn that Chris doesn’t do second takes for his podcast, and he gives everything, all he’s got.  We also talk about manifesting dreams into reality by putting clues out there.  Chris’ intro music for his show is an affirmation of a successful future. 

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In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Richard Harris of The Harris Consulting group about the art of inside sales.

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At 3PL Systems, we make Transportation Management Software with a lot of moving parts. We hire talented U.S. based technical support representatives to support our client base.

We appreciate the contributions of our team. In this episode of 3PL Live, we turn the spotlight on our staff and speak with Blake Rangell about supporting our clients with EDI 204, 210, 214, and API tracking/tracing. We also talk about some popular integrations, including Hubtran for process automation and DAT onboarding.

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3PL Systems is excited to share a founding story in the transportation community. In this 3PL Live episode, we speak with Tristan Bordallo of Iamfr8 INC about leaving a comfortable role at Covenant Transportation to starting an asset-based trucking company with no financing, trucks, or drivers. 

Tristan realized that one way to fix the driver shortage in the industry is to pay the drivers fair wages; his drivers make 75k a year. Iiamfr8 treats drivers so well. Tristan has more drivers than trucks, with 4 more drivers wanting to come on board. 

If you like entrepreneurship and salesmanship, this is a great story worth checking out

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In this 3PL Live episode, Jeremy Thone speaks with American Pro Snowboarder Mason Aguirre about competing against Shaun White in the 2006 Winter Olympics. We get into the psychology of hitting 100-foot jumps on a snowboard. We talk about calculated risk and reinventing yourself after a successful career in snowboarding. How to believe in yourself again, being humble, and sucking at things again in his new journey as a barber to mastering the craft.

While this story isn't about transportation we can all relate to competition, psychology, and taking risks in life.  

In this episode of 3PL Live, host, Jeremy Thone speaks with Belal Batrawy about the "Art of Sales."  Belal worked at six startups and pulled off being the #1 sales rep at four of the six companies, and also dead last at two.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/belbatrawy

https://3plsystems.com/

In this Episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone interviews Chris Wilson of Rise Transportation.  Chris managed to start Rise Transportation in February 2020 during the pandemic!

We also learn about a few side projects Chris is working such as a podcast on leadership and his wife's jewelry business.

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To find Chris Wilson:

https://www.risetransportation.biz/

http://shepherdsof.men/

https://finelle-co.myshopify.com/