Cut Out the Middleman — Easy to Say, Now Prove It | The Long Haul @FreightWaves
Cut Out the Middleman — Easy to Say, Now Prove It | The Long Haul  @FreightWaves
Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
There's a pitch aimed at truckers on every platform right now. Brokers are eating your margin. Cut out the middleman. Get your own authority. It's not hard — you just need a mentor. And there's always a mentor selling.
Trent Tulloh is one of them. He runs Forever Freight Broker, a Tampa training company that teaches drivers and dispatchers to become freight brokers. His reason is personal — his father was an owner-operator who lost his business to bad brokers, and Trent built his company to make sure truckers stop getting the bad end of the stick.
I respect the wound. Today we test the remedy.
Because this show doesn't platform pitches — it pressure-tests them. So Trent came in knowing the format: the claim goes on trial. Is brokering actually the answer for a struggling carrier, or is it a second business bolted onto a first one that isn't working? What does it really take — the bond, the credit, the shippers who don't know your name? And how does "it's not hard" survive a world where the Supreme Court just ruled that anyone selecting carriers can be sued for choosing wrong?
He gets every chance to make his case. His numbers, his students, his story. And you get what this show owes you — the pitch, cross-examined, before you pay for it.
Somebody's leaving this conversation with a different opinion. Might be him. Might be me. Might be you.
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