Your freight bill is leaking money. We find it.
Send me one month of carrier invoices and I’ll tell you on the spot whether you’re being overcharged. If you are, I audit the full twelve months line by line against your contracted rates — free — and you get a findings report and a claim schedule. My fee is 30% of what your carrier actually pays back. No recovery, no invoice, nothing to approve.
GUARANTEE: Free transport audit. No recovery, no fee. 30% of what comes back. In writing.
20+ years managing logistics for
Three ways to stop the leaks
Start with the free audit. Everything after it has to earn its keep with numbers.
Transport Cost Audit
Twelve months of carrier invoices through the Audity 23-Point Reconciliation. Overcharges claimed back in cash from your carriers — my fee comes out of the recovery, so it costs you nothing.
Start with thisWarehouse Cost Analysis
A forensic rebuild of your 3PL billing — storage, handling, picks, ancillary charges and every vague ‘misc’ line. Quoted after a short scoping call; your free transport report tells you if it’s worth it.
What it coversFractional Logistics Manager
Senior logistics leadership one to two days a week — carrier management, rate negotiations, continuous cost control — without the full-time salary.
Keep the savings comingThree steps. Zero risk.
You keep running the business. I work quietly through 12 months of freight data and hand you the findings.
Send me your invoices
12 months of carrier invoices, rate cards and contracts — dropped into the secure client portal. That’s it: no site disruption, no system access needed to start.
I audit line by line
Every consignment runs through the Audity 23-Point Reconciliation — rates, fuel levies, accessorials, break points, duplicates, GST, and a sweep of every vague ‘misc’ charge. Routing and carrier mix analysed for structural savings.
You pay from savings
A written report with quantified findings, and a claim schedule built to be lodged as-is. Lodge it yourself or hand it to me and I’ll run it with your carrier. My fee is 30% of what your carrier actually returns — nothing more, and nothing at all if it returns nothing. The report also includes a preliminary read on your warehouse billing exposure, so you know whether the paid deep-dive is worth it before spending a dollar.
Start free with transport. Go deeper with warehousing.
The free audit proves the method on your freight spend. The paid one goes where billing is hardest to check — and where the deepest leaks hide.
Transport Cost Audit
Twelve months of carrier invoices, every line through the Audity 23-Point Reconciliation against your rate cards: rates, fuel levies, accessorials, break points, duplicates and every vague ‘misc’ charge. You get a findings report and a ready-to-lodge claim schedule.
$0 upfront. My fee is 30% of the recovery, paid out of what your carrier actually returns — agreed in writing before I start.
Start with one month of invoicesWarehouse Cost Analysis
3PL billing is harder to verify than freight: thousands of activity-based charges for storage, handling, picks and surcharges, with nothing to match them against unless someone rebuilds what actually happened. That’s why it rarely gets checked — and why a first structured review typically surfaces the deepest leaks.
Fixed fee, quoted after a short scoping call. Your free transport report already includes a preliminary estimate of your warehouse exposure — so you decide with numbers, not a pitch.
Ask about warehouse analysisMost clients commission the warehouse analysis after the transport audit has already paid for itself.
Where freight and warehouse budgets bleed
After two decades on the buyer’s side of 3PL contracts, the leaks are always in the same places.
Invoice errors
Duplicate consignments, wrong rate cards applied, charges for services never delivered. Recoverable in cash from your carriers.
Fuel levy creep
Levies applied at the wrong percentage, on the wrong base, or never adjusted down when fuel prices fell. It compounds every single week.
Uncontracted accessorials
Futile fees, redelivery, hand-unload, tail-lift, demurrage — charged by default and rarely challenged against what your contract actually allows.
Structural waste
Wrong mode, wrong carrier mix, missed consolidation, lanes that were never tendered. The biggest savings — and the ones nobody inside has time to chase.
Activity billing errors
Picks billed per line when your contract says per order. Handling charged in and out on the same movement. The same pallet-week invoiced twice. Thousands of small charges — rebuilt from what actually happened and checked one by one.
The quiet ‘General charges’ creep
Vague lines — ‘general’, ‘miscellaneous’, ‘admin’ — that grow a little every month, then jump right after you’ve won a claim. That’s not coincidence; it’s cost recovery in disguise. Every one gets swept: no contractual basis, no charge.
Storage that ignores your free period
Storage billed from day three when your contract gives seven days free. Occupancy charged on the month’s peak snapshot instead of the daily profile. Pallet counts that never quite reconcile with what’s on the racks.
Their site costs, on your invoice
Shrink wrap and labelling you never asked for. Consumables at uncontracted rates. Racking repairs, cleaning and maintenance — costs of running their warehouse, not servicing your account — passed through quietly, hoping nobody asks.
Activity-based 3PL billing has no PO to match against — which is exactly why it rarely gets checked, and why the Warehouse Cost Analysis is where the deepest recoveries usually sit.
If I don’t find any savings in your transport audit, you pay nothing.
Not a marketing line — it’s clause 4(d) of my engagement letter. And it goes further than the fee: if the report doesn’t tell you something you didn’t already know about your own freight spend, keep it, we’re done, and there’s no follow-up call. I’m guaranteeing insight, not just money.
Put us to the testLuke Ashwood
20+ years running logistics from the buyer’s side — Transport Manager ANZ at Syngenta, Retail Logistics Manager at Ampol, and terminal operations at GrainCorp and Vopak across fuel, chemicals, FMCG and agriculture.
I’ve spent my career scrutinising carrier invoices, tendering freight lanes and holding 3PLs to their contracts. Now I do it for businesses that don’t have a logistics department watching their spend. The audit runs off your invoices, rate cards and contracts, so where you are makes no difference to what I find — I work with clients right across Australia. I’m Brisbane-based and I’ll come to your site where that’s practical; everywhere else we do it over a call. Either way: no sales pitch, just an honest look at your freight profile. And worth saying plainly — your invoices are seen by one person. Not a team, not an offshore processing centre, not a machine. Me. That is the whole point: software catches a rate mismatch, but it will never catch a 3PL passing through its own site maintenance, or a ‘general charges’ line that jumps the month after you win a claim.
I know exactly where carriers round in their own favour — because for twenty years, it was my job to catch it.
Keep the savings coming
Need a logistics manager, not a full-time hire?
One to two days a week, a few days a month. I oversee your freight function — carrier management, rate negotiations, issue escalation, continuous cost control. Senior logistics leadership at a fraction of a salary.
Ask about fractionalHow a freight audit works
The Audity 23-Point Reconciliation
Twenty-three checks, run against every line of every invoice. Eight on carrier billing, five on warehouse charges, five integrity checks on any invoice, and five that look at how you buy freight rather than what you were charged for it.
Most auditors keep their list private. Mine is published in full — the list is not the hard part.
Read all 23 checksRead a full audit before you send me a single invoice
No Australian freight auditor shows you the deliverable before you sign up. Here is mine, in full — the findings report and the claim schedule, built on a synthetic dataset so nothing is confidential and nothing is held back.
You get both packs: a carrier audit and a warehouse audit. Each has the written findings report and the Excel claim schedule behind it — live formulas, the full transaction ledger, every claim line tied to an invoice number and the contract clause it breaches. It is exactly what a client receives, on a fictional client so you can see all of it.
The client, the carrier and the 3PL are invented and the invoice data is synthetic. What is real is the method, the evidence standard and the format. No email, no form, no follow-up sequence — if you want to talk afterwards, my number is on the last page.
Download it — no email required
Carrier audit
Findings report (PDF)
Claim schedule (Excel)
Warehouse audit
Findings report (PDF)
Claim schedule (Excel)
Read the carrier report first — it is the closer analogue to a first engagement. If anything in it raises a question, call me on 0431 980 777.
Straight answers
What exactly is free. Whether it damages your carrier relationship. How much of your time it takes. What happens if the carrier disputes a claim, and who lodges it. How I actually get paid.
Read the answersWhen did you last check your invoices against your rates?
Start with one month of invoices — not twelve. Send a single month and I’ll tell you on the spot whether there’s anything worth chasing. If there is, the full twelve-month audit follows and costs you nothing unless it recovers something. There’s no purchase order to raise and no budget line to find: this sits outside the budget entirely. Over a call, or on site where that’s practical, anywhere in Australia.
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