G Singh
1 year ago
Advice from people who book the loads.
Network reviews, mode-shift analysis and lane rationalization from people who cover the freight every day.
What this is, and what it isn't
What it is: we look at your actual freight. Lanes, volumes, modes, rates, service history. Then we tell you where the money is going and what we would change.
What it isn’t: a six-figure strategy engagement with a deck at the end. We are a freight brokerage. Our advantage is that we see market rates every day and we know what a lane costs, because we cover them.
What we look at
1
Lane rationalization
Which lanes cost more than they should, where you are paying spot rates on freight that should be contracted, and which lanes carry so little volume they are not worth managing separately.
2
Mode shift
LTL that should be truckload. Truckload that should be intermodal. Separate LTL shipments that should be consolidated. This is usually where the largest savings are, and it is the least examined.
3
Accessorial leakage
Detention, lumpers, redelivery, reclasses. Individually small, collectively large, and almost never reported as a category.
4
Carrier mix and network fit
Too concentrated is a risk. Too fragmented is a management cost. There is a middle. We also look at whether your inventory sits where your customers are, and what your freight would look like if it did not.
What you get back
Where the spend is going
A read on your freight spend broken out by lane and by mode, with the accessorial leakage quantified as its own line rather than buried in the rate.
Mode-shift opportunities
Specific lanes where a change of mode saves money, with the dollar impact attached to each one rather than left as a general recommendation.
What to contract, what to leave alone
Which lanes to put under contract, which to keep on spot, and which to leave as they are. Including an honest note on what we would bid and what we would not.
- Freight history
What we need from you
Ninety days of freight history at minimum: origin, destination, mode, weight, carrier, and what you paid. Plus any service data you have, such as on-time performance, chargebacks and claims.
If you have a full year, better. Seasonality hides in a quarter.
- Worth saying plainly
The conflict of interest, named
We have a commercial interest here. If the answer is move more freight with us, we would obviously like that. So we make a point of telling you the ones that are not: the lanes you should contract direct, and the ones where a mode change saves you money and costs us margin. If advice never runs against our own interest, it is not worth much.
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