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Winning in a Down Freight Market with Nick Dangles

Release Date: 04/24/2023

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Nick Dangles and Joe Lynch discuss winning in a down freight market. Nick is Co-founder of Sync Logistics Training is a joint venture between Metafora + Kinetic, a Learning Management Software that gives brokerages the power to transfer years of industry knowledge to new hire employees in an engaging and effective platform.

About Nick Dangles

Nick Dangles is the Co-founder of Kinetic, and Sync Logistics Training, a learning management platform built and designed for the growing supply chain and logistic industry. Nick is a tenured veteran of full truckload freight brokerage who has firsthand knowledge of technology’s power in the freight industry. Nick’s operational focus and capacity to find a path forward, no matter the challenge, make his skills indispensable when working on a project, problem, or idea. Nick received his degree in Philosophy from The University of Illinois and received his law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

About Sync Logistics Training

Sync Logistics Training is a learning management platform built and designed for the growing supply chain and logistic industry. Effective training is no longer an option, it’s an expectation, and the quicker your employees ramp the quicker you realize ROI. With Sync you’ll experience engaging video content, real time call simulations, and premade worksheets and handouts that will jump start and bolster your training needs.

About Kinetic

Kinetic helps freight tech companies get their products to market faster and with better adoption. It’s not enough to simply build a great product. To succeed, both startups and companies at scale need to make decisions about how to effectively acquire new customers and address their target audience. By leveraging our network and transportation experience, we assess the current market understanding of your product to help find product-market-fit and provide support to your sales and marketing teams. We also partner with your company to build and deliver effective training materials, drive adoption throughout an organization, and provide basic customer support.

Key Takeaways: Winning in a Down Freight Market

Nick Dangle is Co-founder of Sync Logistics Training, a joint venture between Metafora + Kinetic.
Sync Logistics Training is a Learning Management Software that gives brokerages the power to transfer years of industry knowledge to new hire employees in an engaging and effective platform.
In the podcast interview Nick and Joe discuss winning in a down freight market
- During a down freight market, most freight brokers scale back spending on technology, people, marketing, and training – while this might be an economic necessity for some, it often results in lagging results especially when the market becomes healthy again.
- During down freight markets like right now, many shippers become price focused, which means freight brokers need different sales tactics – and perhaps some training on new sales tactics.
Training is a proven tool to improve the performance of employees, but it has under-utilized in logistics because most training programs were expensive, required off-site travel, and wasn’t customized to the needs of logistics people.
With Sync Logistics Training companies can:
- Reduce the burden on management.
- Increase retention of new hires.
- Increase employee utilization rates in their first 180 days.
- Increase speed of knowledge transfer through engagement.
- Increase employee engagement.
- Implement enterprise level course content at a fraction of the cost.
- Minimize time to employee utilization.
Sync Logistics Training provides customized learning management perfect for the logistics industry by utilizing a mix of video courses, simulations, and quizzes that will help employees improve their attitudes, skills, and knowledge.