Oasis Freight Transport underwent a major transition in the past year. Growing up, Polo Jr. He said he kept trying to find a solution for carrying on the business that would also improve his work-life balance. The answer came a couple of years later from Polo Jr. In an entrepreneurial class, Polo Jr. Instead of coordinating their own trucks and trailers with available drivers to transport loads, brokering removes the overhead and limitations of maintaining a fleet, and instead plays a third-party role by connecting trucks and drivers across the country to loads in need of transport.
Working remotely from Nashville, Polo Jr. In January , Oasis hired its third full-time employee, Polo Sr. They also established a website as a touch point for contact information and to drum up more business.
By fall , they had sold all their trucks, changed their name and transitioned into operating solely as a freight brokerage. With no more trucks of their own to manage, Oasis no longer needed to maintain a truck yard and shop. They put their Othello facility up for sale and moved to an efficient 2,square-foot upstairs office at W. Clearwater Ave. By the end of the year, we had 1, carriers across the U.
The number of loads coordinated and successfully carried each week tripled from about 40 to during the non-winter months.
Last year, they brokered a total of about 7, loads. Oasis has seen about a percent increase in business since making the switch. Due to the rising demand of the more than 3, manufacturing and shipping companies and more than carrier companies that Oasis works with, the Garzas had to hire more support staff, adding a total of eight employees.
