Your freight costs just went up 40%.
Your carriers aren't waiting for you to catch up.
Thirty years inside major Australian freight carriers. Now working for shippers. The industry is in transformation — real cost pressures on carriers are creating gaps between what was agreed and what's actually happening. On price. On service. On both. We find the gaps and build the commercial case to close them.
30 years inside:
Diesel per litre. Up 40% since March.
Current carrier fuel surcharges. Most shippers cannot validate them.
Australian trucking businesses closed. 12 months to November 2025.
Every CFO in Australia is watching their freight line blow out. Most don't know what's recoverable and what isn't. We do.
We work for shippers.
Companies spending between $500,000 and $15 million a year on freight. Wholesalers. Distributors. Manufacturers. FMCG. Building products. E-commerce.
We don't work for carriers.
We spent 30 years on their side of the table. We know exactly how they construct rate cards, where they build margin, and where they overcharge when nobody is watching. Now we work for the people writing the cheques.
Four services. All priced.
AM Freight Audit
$4,950 + GST
Desktop analysis of your freight invoices, carrier contracts, and surcharge structures. Using our benchmarking data and 30 years of carrier expertise, we give you one clear answer: are you overpaying, by how much, and where.
Delivered as a written report in five business days.
If you're overpaying — and most are — we tell you whether the opportunity is best captured through a Diagnostic or straight to tender. We make that recommendation in the report.
Freight Optimisation Diagnostic
$14,950 + GST
One day on-site with your logistics and finance teams. One follow-up video session. Full lane-by-lane analysis across every carrier, route, weight break, and surcharge in your network.
Written blueprint ranking every savings opportunity by dollar value and effort to capture. Delivered in 10 business days.
AM Freight Audit already completed? $4,950 credited against this fee.
You act on the blueprint internally, or we run the tender for you.
Freight Re-tender & Implementation
From $24,950* + GST
*Standard scope: single-site dispatch, three core services. Complex scope (multi-site, international, specialised freight) quoted and agreed before work begins.
We write the RFQ. We manage carrier responses. We benchmark every submission against market. We negotiate the contracts. We validate the savings figure.
You get signed agreements and a number you can take to the board. Base fee determined by freight spend and carrier complexity.
Diagnostic already completed? $14,950 credited against this fee.
Contracts signed. Savings locked in. Now you need someone making sure carriers honour them.
Freight Intelligence Retainer
$3,450/month + GST
Total investment: $41,400 + GST per year.
The full freight advisory function on retainer. 12-month commitment bundles in: current-state review (AM Freight Audit), one standard go-to-market tender, and twelve months of monthly invoice monitoring, quarterly benchmarking, and annual contract renewal advisory.
Cancel with 30 days notice after minimum term.
Replaces the function of an invoice checker, freight analyst, and procurement manager — three roles typically costing $250K–$350K+ fully loaded at mid-market salaries.
*Includes one standard tender (single-site dispatch, three core services). Tenders outside standard scope quoted and agreed before work begins.
Most retainer clients start here after completing a Diagnostic or Tender. Intelligence without action is just information — but information delivered monthly keeps your carriers honest.
All engagements fully tax deductible before 30 June.
What we find in freight audits.
Average rate of carrier invoice errors — consistent across large-scale freight audit studies.
AFS Logistics, 250,000-invoice study, 2024
Added to shipment costs by fuel surcharge misapplication — one of the most common and least challenged billing errors.
Zero Down Supply Chain Solutions; AFS Logistics, 2024
Of all freight billing errors relate specifically to fuel surcharge misapplication.
AFS Logistics LTL study, March 2024
Peak fuel surcharge applied by a major Australian carrier in April 2026. Six weeks earlier it was 13%. Most shippers cannot validate whether this is legitimate.
Carrier weekly fuel surcharge table, April 2026
Major carriers lifting fuel surcharges significantly in recent months — some increasing contract surcharges by more than double in a single announcement. Every shipper is now paying what amounts to a new base cost structure.
Carrier surcharge announcements, 2026
The ACCC issued legal substantiation notices to carriers in March 2026 requiring justification of fuel surcharges, citing 'surcharges of more than 70% imposed on small businesses.' Most shippers never challenged a surcharge in their lives.
ACCC, March 2026
Every dollar invested before 30 June is a deduction.
AM Freight Audit
$4,950
→ $3,465 after tax
at 30% company tax rate
Optimisation Diagnostic
$14,950
→ $10,465 after tax
at 30% company tax rate
Re-tender & Implementation
$24,950
→ $17,465 after tax
at 30% company tax rate
If we find even half the typical 12% variance in your freight spend, the audit pays for itself ten times over. In this financial year. After 1 July, it's next year's number.