This whitepaper provides a strategic blueprint and resources for asset-based companies to start and grow a brokerage. The opportunities in the market are ripe for companies of any size. Logistics and supply chain research and consulting firm Armstrong & Associates estimates that net revenues for U.S.-based 3PLs grew by five percent in 2017 to hit $77.1 billion, and gross revenues rose 10.5 percent to reach $184.3 million. The firm predicted revenue growth in 2018 would continue at a similar rate.