If you came out of brokerage or a 3PL, the jobs are still there, but they keep score differently. Managed transportation roles are judged on the shipper's freight spend and how well service holds up, not on loads booked or margin per load, and a resume written in broker terms can lose an interview you are qualified for.
Uber Freight is the clearest example. It is cutting about 80 roles and still lists 290 open positions. In a Nov. 11 roundup, FreightWaves counted 1,021 announced logistics job cuts since mid-September. The openings are real. They are just moving to a different scoreboard.
Where is Uber Freight still hiring after the layoffs?
Uber Freight is hiring mostly in managed transportation and client-facing support. It has 290 open roles and made 55 hires in the past 30 days. The 80 cuts come to about 1.6% to 1.7% of its workforce, which makes them a trim. The company is not pulling back.
CEO Rebecca Tinucci's memo said it directly: "we are actively hiring in high-demand areas, particularly across TM and client-facing support." The company says the roughly 80 cuts are its currently planned workforce adjustments, and it has announced no further rounds. The stated goal is to simplify operations and remove overlapping responsibilities.
The demand behind those openings:
- 30% growth in North American brokerage volume (Oct. 14 update)
- A second straight quarter of year-over-year revenue growth
- Twice as many new managed-transportation customers as in 2025
- About $165 million in "new addressable spend" from new enterprise customers, in Tinucci's words
- More than $18 billion of freight under management, serving 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle and Anheuser-Busch InBev
The mechanism matters more than the headline. Every new TM customer brings a freight network that someone has to run every day. That means a routing guide to maintain, carriers to keep compliant with it, and a spend report to defend at the quarterly review. Those are the seats being filled.
Two practical notes. First, Uber Freight's TM unit came from Transplace, which it acquired in 2021. That is why TM roles still cluster around Frisco/Dallas and Chicago despite the company's Texas and Illinois office closures, so check each posting's location before you write off either state. Second, at 55 hires per 30 days, filling 290 roles would take about 5.3 months if the pace holds. You have a window, but it is open to everyone else too.
Who are you competing with for managed transportation jobs?
Your competition is mostly not Uber Freight's own 80. It is the 1,021 people cut across transportation, warehousing and distribution between Sept. 14 and Nov. 10. That works out to about 3.5 displaced workers for every Uber Freight opening, and many of them are warehouse and 3PL operations staff going after the same client-facing TM roles.
FreightWaves named the largest cuts in its roundup:
- DSV: 175 layoffs at an Illinois site after losing a customer contract
- National Distribution Centers: 293 cuts across California and Ohio
- CEVA: 120 jobs at Lockbourne, Ohio, by June 2027
- Kenco: permanently closing a warehouse near Myerstown, Pennsylvania
The same period saw 15 freight-related bankruptcy filings. FreightWaves describes capacity leaving the market two ways: through bankruptcies, and through smaller cuts tied to contract churn. When a contract moves, the freight doesn't disappear. Another provider picks it up and hires people to run it, which is why proof that you can hold an account carries so much weight.
1,021 cuts between Sept. 14 and Nov. 10, against 290 open roles at Uber Freight.
Here is the market in one view, including two figures from Refolk's index of professional profiles:
| Metric | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| US brokerage-title talent pool | 15,050 | Refolk's index |
| US transportation / managed-TM-title pool | 13,382 | Refolk's index |
| Broker pool vs. TM pool | 1.12 : 1 | Derived |
| Uber Freight openings vs. its own cuts | 3.6x | Derived from FreightWaves |
| Months to fill 290 at 55 hires per 30 days | ≈ 5.3 | Derived, assumes pace holds |
| Uber Freight headcount implied by the cuts | ≈ 4,700 to 5,000 | Derived |
The ratio that matters is 1.12 to 1. The US has more people with brokerage titles than people with transportation-management titles. A TM hiring manager should expect plenty of crossover resumes from brokerage right now, and many of them look alike for a reason.
Why do thousands of freight broker resumes sound the same?
A large share of US brokers trained in one system, so they describe their work in one vocabulary. In Refolk's index, 15,050 US profiles hold brokerage-side titles (Freight Broker, Freight Agent, Carrier Sales Rep, Logistics or Brokerage Account Executive), and 11 of the 25 profiles sampled currently work at Total Quality Logistics.
A small sample from Refolk's index, but roughly 44% of the sampled brokers sit at one employer.
Same training, same bullets: loads per day, margin per load, calls per day. Put a dozen of those resumes in front of a TM hiring manager and they can't tell them apart. They also answer the wrong question. A brokerage resume shows what you earned on each load. A TM job asks what you saved the shipper and whether the freight arrived on time.
The TM-side pool looks completely different. Refolk's index finds 13,382 US profiles with titles like Transportation Manager, Transportation Analyst, or Managed Transportation Manager. They are spread across shippers such as C&S Wholesale Grocers, Keystone Automotive, Hitachi Energy, CTDI and Amazon, and no single employer dominates. These people spent their careers inside a shipper's freight budget, and their resumes read that way. That is the vocabulary a 4PL hiring manager expects. A 4PL (fourth-party logistics provider) runs a shipper's whole transportation operation, including carrier selection, routing and spend reporting, rather than just moving individual loads.
So writing in TM terms does two jobs. It matches the posting, and it separates you from the thousands of people who share your training.
If you're still at a brokerage that's trimming headcount, you have a second problem: you can't search openly. You're competing with 1,021 displaced people for the same TM openings while keeping the search quiet from a manager who tracks your call volume. Waiting to see which application gets a reply is a slow way to learn who wants you.
How do you rewrite a freight broker resume for managed transportation?
Replace activity metrics with the shipper's outcomes: spend managed, cost against budget, routing guide compliance, tender acceptance and on-time delivery. The work is often the same. The unit of measure changes.
Managed transportation is a service where a shipper hands the planning, carrier procurement and day-to-day execution of its freight to an outside provider, which is measured on total spend and service. A routing guide is the shipper's ranked list of contracted carriers and rates for each lane. Most brokers have worked inside someone's routing guide, usually as the backup carrier. That experience transfers. You just have to describe it from the shipper's side.
Before and after
| Brokerage bullet | Managed transportation rewrite |
|---|---|
| Covered 40 loads/day across dry van | Ran daily execution on Y lanes for a shipper's $X annual freight spend |
| Averaged X% margin per load | Held cost per mile within X% of the shipper's budget |
| Made X carrier calls per day | Built a backup carrier bench that lifted primary tender acceptance from X% to Y% |
| Opened N new shipper accounts | Retained $X of account spend through the annual RFP |
The numbers TM hiring managers look for
- Annual freight spend you managed or influenced, as a dollar range if you lack the exact figure
- Cost per mile against budget, with the direction it moved
- Routing guide compliance, meaning the share of loads that went to the contracted carrier
- Primary tender acceptance on the lanes you owned
- On-time delivery percentage
- Spend retained through an RFP or contract renewal
If you never tracked these, look in old TMS exports, shipper scorecards and quarterly business review decks. Use honest ranges ("$4M to $6M in annual spend") rather than numbers you can't defend in an interview.
Doing this translation once is hard. Doing it again for every posting is the part people skip. That repeated rewrite is the work Refolk handles: I take your own brokerage history, read the posting you paste in, and return your resume rewritten in that posting's vocabulary, without inventing anything you didn't do.
Why is tender acceptance the headline number right now?
Capacity is tight, so service has become the scarce thing a TM provider sells. Uber Freight's Q3 market report puts primary tender acceptance at 78%, against a normal range of 90% to 94%.
Primary tender acceptance is the share of loads that the first carrier in the routing guide accepts. When that carrier rejects a load, the shipper falls back to backup carriers or the spot market, usually at a higher cost. Uber Freight gives its Managed Transportation shippers a dedicated carrier manager for this work, and its Uber Freight Exchange spot marketplace covers the gaps. The company credits its growth to "maintaining service while others pulled back."
That tells you what to lead with. "Kept primary tender acceptance above X% during a tight Q3" lines up with how TM providers sell. "Covered 40 loads/day" does not.
Brokers have a real advantage here if they frame it correctly. You have lived through the moment a routing guide fails, because that is when the load reaches the spot market and lands on your board. As a broker, the margin on that load was your win. To a shipper, it was a cost overrun. Describe the same experience as protecting service when the contract carrier walked away, and the interviewer hears a partner rather than a vendor.
Which managed transportation jobs should you apply for?
Target titles where the job is measured on the shipper's network: account management, carrier management, client engagement and pricing analysis. Uber Freight's recent postings show the range:
- Account Manager II (Transportation): several Arkansas locations
- Transportation Logistics Specialist: Dallas and Garland, Texas
- Pricing Analyst II - Intermodal: $56K to $67K (employer provided, via Glassdoor)
- Sr. Strategic Client Engagement Partner (Transportation Management)
- Carrier Manager II (Transportation Management)
A rough map from where you are now:
- Carrier sales reps fit best as Carrier Manager, where tender acceptance and carrier compliance are the job. Put your tender acceptance numbers first.
- Brokerage account executives fit Account Manager or Client Engagement roles, if the resume leads with spend and retention
- Warehouse ops and logistics analysts fit Pricing Analyst and specialist roles, if the resume leads with cost and lane data
Look beyond 4PLs too. The 13,382 TM-title profiles in Refolk's index sit mostly in-house at shippers, which means grocers, auto parts distributors and electronics companies hire for these roles directly.
FAQ
Is Uber Freight still hiring after its layoffs?
Yes. FreightWaves reported that Uber Freight is cutting about 80 roles, roughly 1.6% to 1.7% of its workforce, while listing 290 open positions and having hired 55 people in the previous 30 days. CEO Rebecca Tinucci said hiring is concentrated in managed transportation and client-facing support, and the company has announced no further rounds of cuts.
Can a freight broker move into a managed transportation role?
Yes, but the resume has to change. Brokers already understand carriers, lanes and what happens when a routing guide fails. The rewrite moves the metrics from loads per day and margin per load to the shipper's outcomes: spend managed, cost per mile against budget, tender acceptance and on-time delivery. Carrier sales experience maps most directly to carrier manager roles.
What numbers belong on a 3PL account manager resume?
Lead with account spend you retained through an RFP or renewal, then add on-time delivery, cost against budget and the scope of the network you covered (sites, lanes, regions). Some of the largest recent cuts followed lost contracts, including DSV's 175 Illinois layoffs, and TM hiring follows the shipper's spend wherever it moves. Proof that you can keep an account is the strongest signal you can send.
How long will these managed transportation openings stay open?
At Uber Freight's recent pace of 55 hires per 30 days, filling 290 roles would take about 5.3 months if the pace holds. Don't take that as a reason to wait. About 3.5 displaced logistics workers are competing for each of those openings, and the earliest applications with resumes written in TM terms have the advantage.