John Thomas, owner of Atex Logistics Inc., El Paso, Texas, offers a training program to teach truck drivers how to become freight brokers.

In a press release Sunday, Thomas said his “most likely prospects are coming out of the trucking industry,” and offered this run-down on the most frequent reasons truck drivers turn to freight brokering:
• I injured my back and the doctor told me to give up driving. I want to stay in an industry I’m familiar with
• My family wants me at home more often. It’s just too difficult out there on the road with trying to raise a family
• My in-laws have three trucks and they want to stop using another broker
• I’ve got a partner and we want to buy a truck. One of us will drive and the other will broker the loads
• I’m just burned out – I need to get off the road
• I see all these loads going out of my employer’s business and I want to learn to broker to get a piece of the action
• I’ve got a construction business and want to supplement it with freight brokering
• With high fuel and other operating costs, I can’t keep driving at a loss
Thomas’s company has a web site at www.atexlogistics.com.