Comment / The US Line: Where is all the sales talent in freight forwarding?

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(Editor’s note: this is Bill Paul’s debut column for Premium. With five decades-plus experience in the market, he shares insight on staffing and recruitment trends, management strategy and corporate growth.)

I was recently talking to an industry friend and remarked that if we had a warehouse full of proven, successful sales hunters, we would be running a 24/7 business shipping them out to meet the demand for talent.

Why do I think this?

Fifty years ago I embarked upon my freight ...