Third-party logistics and freight brokerage operator across LTL, truckload, and parcel.
Spot Freight is a mid-market 3PL and freight broker built on traditional logistics infrastructure (SAP, Salesforce, TMS) with a sales-first operating model—35 of 47 active roles are in sales, reflecting a quota-carrying, customer-acquisition-driven business. Pain-point data reveals structural friction: carrier acquisition, zone profitability management, and cost-effective routing are all listed as live challenges, which aligns with the company's public positioning around customer outcome focus rather than transactional volume.
Spot Freight is a third-party logistics provider based in Indianapolis, operating as a freight broker across multiple modalities: LTL (less-than-truckload), full truckload, parcel, and intermodal services. The company sells customized freight management and load-tendering solutions to mid-market shippers. With 501–1,000 employees and a heavily sales-weighted org (70%+ of open hiring), Spot operates a customer-acquisition model tied to pipeline development and growth strategy initiatives. Core infrastructure includes SAP for ERP, Salesforce for CRM, and proprietary or third-party TMS (transportation management system) for dispatch and routing.
Spot runs SAP for enterprise resource planning, Salesforce for CRM and sales pipeline management, and a dedicated TMS for load tendering and routing. Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and Power BI for analytics round out the stack.
Carrier acquisition and retention, managing profitability across freight zones, cost-effective routing optimization, and meeting dynamic client freight demand while maintaining service expectations.
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