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HAVING AN EQUALIZED “FREE FREIGHT” PROGRAM KILLS PROFITS, SO CHANGE IT
It’s common for shippers to have an equalized free freight program. What I mean by equalized freight program I am talking about offering “free freight” to customers who purchase a certain amount of volume of goods, regardless of their geographical location. The problem is transportation [...]
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This post is going to be short, sweet and to the point. I love what a good freight audit company can do for a shipper! These firms usually can process invoices way more effectively than a shipper can on their own. In addition, some of these firms can output metrics and business intelligence that can [...]
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One question I get a lot is about the time frame in which a carrier has to invoice a shipper. Shippers get surprised when a freight invoice pops up twelve months after a shipment was executed and they feel there might be some clause that gets them off the hook. Well, I’m here to burst [...]
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Is it legal to mark up freight charges? No, its not. So lets load up the paddy wagon and start bringing American businesses to justice! Okay, I’m only partly kidding around so readers can relax. Technically it’s not illegal to mark up freight charges but in so doing suppliers may be violating the purchasing terms.
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One thing I hear a lot in the voice of shippers is their lack of confidence when it comes to their parcel pricing programs. Recently a shipper told me, in a boasting kind of a way, of the new discount he just achieved with UPS. Then he immediately asked me if I thought that was [...]
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