Choptank Transport isn’t the largest freight broker in the United States nor is it the oldest one, but it is the one you want to watch. In 2000, the company arose from a need to ship produce and poultry in an ag-rich area known as the Delmarva Peninsula.  Choptank quickly found its niche in the food and refrigerated freight truckload market and later added a full array of specialty services that now include cold less-than-truckload (LTL), dry LTL, intermodal, port and drayage offerings. Choptank is on Transport Topics’ Top 50 3PLs list.

Once again, Choptank responded to a need, but this time it was its own. The goal was to accommodate the company’s rapid growth while improving efficiencies. The time was right to develop an ultra-efficient, proprietary software platform to replace one of the larger software provider’s services. The new program is fully integrated with the company’s robust transportation management system (TMS) to provide a Choptank-centric platform that uniquely fits a company of Choptank’s size and requirements for expansion.
Choptank’s ability to identify, research and fully integrate the latest supply chain technologies into its everyday business model is a large part of its success. It is also a good example of how in this industry, you can’t be a 3PL without also being a technology company.  
The goal was to create a product that did everything Choptank needed it to do for its customers and staff, without the extraneous and overly cumbersome enterprise features that some of the more well-known systems advertise. It needed to be fast, simple, thorough and highly efficient.
At age 28, Josh Bergling and his in-house team of software programmers made it all happen. Bergling is the youngest of Choptank’s leadership team, but don’t let his age fool you. Now 29 and the director of business intelligence, he oversees a team of software engineers who are constantly updating, improving and modifying the system’s code.