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How a Freight Broker Scaled to 50 Million Without Owning a Truck
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Episode 99 of Scaling Up with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack how one freight brokerage grew from a single phone to $50 million in revenue without ever owning a truck. The secret: extreme transparency on rates and real-time load tracking that built trust with small carriers. The founder, Sarah Chen, started in 2018 with a desk and a notebook. By 2022, she had 12 employees and $8 million in revenue. Then she bet everything on a public-rate platform, posting what she charged shippers and what she paid carriers. Carriers loved it. Shippers trusted it. By mid-2026, revenue hit $50 million with only 40 employees. Lucas and Luna walk through the math of margin compression vs. volume growth, the risk of alienating big shippers, and why transparency might be the cheapest customer-acquisition strategy in logistics.