For very small businesses selling small amounts of small things, the right answer is to use FedEx and DHL. For everybody else, FedEx/DHL is hella expensive if

For very small businesses selling small amounts of small things, the right answer is to use FedEx and DHL. For everybody else, FedEx/DHL is hella expensive if you want to ship a couple conexes worth of stuff. The way freight companies are set up, you can't just pull up with a container and say "What's the rate to Albuquerque?" you have to have a whole plan that takes into account transfers, mode shifts, delays, temporary storage, customs, who can sign for it, paying every single entity involved in touching the freight, and a bunch of stuff I don't even know about.