Freight audit guides for shippers

The 7 errors a real audit catches, what your contract should say, and how much you should expect to recover.

Performance vs. subscription, scope, contract-clause expertise, and the 5 red flags to walk away from.

What software catches (mechanical errors) vs. what still needs a human (interpretive disputes). When each fits.

What an FAP provider does, how they charge, who holds your cash between invoice and carrier, and the three clauses to demand.

The nine errors that recur on every mode, how duplicate bills happen, and the 49 USC 13710 dispute window.

The 9 overcharge categories worth auditing and what each typically recovers as a % of parcel spend.

Which UPS services are guaranteed, the 15-day claim window, and the refund math line by line.

How the GSR works, what FedEx actually pays back, and the 15-day claim window that kills most claims.

The 5 DAS categories, the quarterly ZIP list, and the worked dollar math on a 30,000-package account.

The EIA index, the table, and the base across LTL, truckload, parcel and rail, and the six places the math breaks.

The dim weight formula, the 139 vs 166 divisor, a calculator, and the dimension adjustments that raise parcel bills.

The 9 accessorials carriers bill most often, their typical dollar ranges, and the contract clauses that cap them.

How FedEx pegs the surcharge to the DOE diesel index and where the math goes wrong week to week.

UPS's three separate surcharge tables (Air, Ground, Freight) and the 5 failure modes that cost real money.

Free-time rules, the evidence carriers must produce, and how to dispute a charge with the receiver's yard log.

The six layers of an LTL rate, a quoted-vs-billed worked example, and why most of the gap is the shipper's own inputs.

The line-by-line method for LTL invoices: class, FAK, fuel cap, minimum charge, and accessorial evidence.

Minimum-charge, fuel-anchor, accessorial-authorization, reclassification, claim-window, and audit-cooperation clauses — what to negotiate and why.

The three roles a BOL plays, the fields that decide disputes, and the language to pre-print on your template.

The fields that make a POD dispute-ready and how a missing OS&D check can cost a $4,200 claim.

How NMFC class is determined, why a one-class reclassification raises bills 15-25%, and the FAK alternative.