Trading Companies

When the Freight Number Is the Deal

You buy and sell all day. Freight is part of the price, not an afterthought.

You're working a spread and the buyer wants a delivered number now. A freight quote that comes back tomorrow is a trade you already lost.

Quotes at deal speed

A trade lives or dies on the freight number

When you're buying and selling all day, freight isn't a back-office line item. It's inside the price you quote. If the number is slow or wrong, the spread you were chasing is gone before you can move on it.

You're never shipping the same lane twice. It's a different origin, a different mill, a different port every time, and the buyer on the other end still wants one clean delivered price while they're on the phone.

The freight behind the trade

  • Multi-origin POs that never repeat the same lane
  • Back-to-back moves where you never touch the product
  • Volume that swings hard week to week
  • A delivered number the buyer wants before they commit
The Worry-Free Standard

Coverage that holds after you've quoted it

Quoting fast only helps if the truck shows. The real exposure in trading freight is a delivered price you gave the buyer, and a load that sits two days later while you explain why.

Across all shipments, updated quarterly, 98.5% of pickups and 98.6% of deliveries land on time. The same standard rides on every load: Last updated 06/30/2026

  • Multiple ETA updates on every load, every day.
  • Your driver on the phone, multiple times a day.
  • Live GPS on every truckload, so you watch it move in real time.
  • A real person reachable 24/7, nights and weekends included.
  • If a load runs late, you hear it from us first, with a plan to fix it.
Every mode a trade needs

One desk covers whatever your book throws at it

A trade might move by flatbed out of one mill and dry van out of the next, truckload this week and LTL the following, a container off the water and a railcar inland. You shouldn't have to line up a new broker for each one. Fello moves daily volume for trading companies in forest products and building materials, so the desk already knows how your freight behaves.

The trader keeps trading. We handle the origins, the appointments, and the back-to-back timing so the product goes buyer to buyer without landing in your lap.

  • Full truckload for the mill-direct and port-direct loads that fill a trailer
  • Flatbed for lumber, metals and anything that rides open-deck
  • LTL for the partial lots that don't fill a truck
  • Rail for the bulk moves that can ride slower and cheaper
  • Drayage for the containers you're trading straight off the water

Built for the way traders actually work

No two weeks look alike. The freight desk behind your book has to move as fast as the trades do.

A number while the buyer's on the line

You ask for a delivered rate and get one back fast enough to hold the trade, not after the buyer has moved on.

Coverage when volume spikes

A week that triples doesn't break the plan. Capacity flexes with your book instead of capping it.

You never touch the product

Back-to-back moves run mill to buyer without the freight ever landing in your yard or your inbox.

Talk to an expert

Send us your next trade's freight leg

Give us the origins and the delivery. You'll get a number back fast enough to quote against. That's the whole test.