Robert Snowdale

About Robert Snowdale

Robert Snowdale is the founder and owner of Distribution Solutions, Inc. (DSi), which was launched in 1991 as a freight management consulting company headquartered in Plymouth, MA. He is also the founder and owner of DSI Freightways, LLC, a subsidiary of DSI that operates as a freight brokerage business. Snowdale’s decades of industry experience in freight forwarding, freight consolidation, Less-than-truckload (LTL), and truckload, as well as his expertise in freight pricing, have been key to his success.

A graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, Robert spent many years in the transportation and logistics industry, performing various management roles for some of the country’s leading motor freight transportation firms. His successful tenure as owner and founder of DSI Freightways stems from his background in founding and operating one of the earliest freight brokerage firms in 1981, shortly after the passage of The Motor Carrier Act of 1980.

Today, Distribution Solutions, Inc. provides cutting-edge management services for manufacturers and service industries looking to select and partner with commercial freight carriers and interim warehousing service providers. At the helm of DSi, Rob has been instrumental in adopting a state-of-the-art Transportation Management System (TMS) program, which has been critically acclaimed for delivering freight savings of 20% or more and bringing operating efficiencies and in-transit shipment visibility to their clients. This unique transportation technology has helped their clients to compete more efficiently and aggressively in today’s global logistics marketplace.  

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Robert Lloyd Snowdale was raised in Cohasset, MA, on Turtle Island. As a youth, he was a prodigious worker from the age of 13 years. He pumped gas, bagged groceries, did masonry construction and painting, and even served as a dishwasher, busboy, and eventually a waiter at the world-famous Hugo’s Lighthouse, a grand food establishment founded in the 1930s. In 1974, he took a job as a Sales Representative for Springmeier Shipping Company of St Louis, MO, and started his long career in the transportation and logistics industry.  He was promoted to the position of New England Regional Sales Manager, overseeing sales efforts for the company from Maine to Virginia.