LoadwrightFreight Invoice Auditing

Independent freight invoice audit

Your carriers make billing errors. We find them and get the money back.

Loadwright checks every line of your carrier invoices against your rate agreement and your delivery records — duplicate charges, rates above contract, fuel surcharges calculated wrong, weights billed higher than the proof of delivery, accessorials that should never have applied.

No cost to review. We only invoice if we recover money for you.

30%
Our fee, of recovered money
45
Checks run per invoice
~3.6%
Typical billing leakage
~10 min
Of your time to start

Freight auditing services

What we do

We check every charge on your carrier invoices against the rate agreement you signed and the delivery record for each shipment, then recover what was overbilled.

What we check against

Three documents, not two

The invoice, your dispatch data, and your rate agreement. Most invoice checking uses only the first two, which is why it never catches a wrong rate.

How we check it

45 checks, all arithmetic

Nothing sampled, nothing estimated. Every finding traces back to a charge line, a contract clause and a delivery record, so a carrier can verify it in minutes.

Why use us

It costs nothing to find out

No retainer and no fee unless money comes back. Ten minutes of your time, and you either recover something or get written confirmation your billing is clean.

How an audit runs →

The audit scope 45 checks

Everything below runs on every batch, grouped by what each check needs to see — so you can tell which ones work from invoices alone, and which need your contract or delivery records.

Against your rate agreement

The highest-value checks — a rate error repeats on every consignment
Rates billed above contract — flat, per kg or lb, per pallet, per hundredweight, weight-break tiers
Minimum charges and contracted discounts applied wrongly
Deficit weight — the next weight break would have been cheaper
Fuel surcharge above the agreed percentage
Fuel on the wrong base, or against the wrong index band
Fuel billed on top of an all-inclusive rate that already includes it
Charges under an expired contract, or before one took effect
Wrong contract referenced; carrier entity not matching the agreement
Payment terms shorter than agreed; invoices outside the billing window
Accessorials that appear nowhere in your agreement
Dangerous goods surcharges at the wrong hazard class

Underneath sits unit conversion across kg, lb and tonnes, volumetric weight by mode, multiple currencies, differing date formats, carriers trading under several names, and the fact that every carrier labels its invoice columns differently. Full methodology →

What lands in your inbox

A written report in plain language — what was found, what it is worth, and what to do about it. No dashboard to learn and no software to log into.

Freight invoice audit · prepared for

Example Distribution Co.

March invoices · 2 carriers · 214 consignments reviewed
Recoverable this period $4,918.20
Recovery by carrier
Carrier A — rate and fuel variances$3,764.40
Carrier B — duplicates and surcharges$1,153.80
What was found
Above contracted rate — 11 consignments$2,190.00
Fuel surcharge above agreed band$1,318.40
Remote-area surcharge, metropolitan delivery$1,015.00
Duplicate charge, billed twice$394.80
Recommended next
  1. Correct the Melbourne–Sydney pallet rate on Carrier A's table — it is the source of 11 of these and will keep recurring.
  2. Query the fuel band being applied; the agreement specifies a lower tier.
  3. Dispute packs for both carriers are attached, with the agreement clause and delivery record behind each claim.
Every figure traces to a charge line, a contract clause and a delivery record. Nothing is estimated.

Illustrative example using test data. Not a client result.

Written for a person, not a system

The report is something you can forward to your finance manager or put in front of a carrier without translating it first. It says what went wrong, which consignments it happened on, and what it is worth.

It arrives with the claims already built

  • A dispute pack per carrier, with the rate agreement page and the delivery record already attached to each claim
  • A short list of corrections worth making so the same error stops recurring — usually worth more over a year than the recovery itself
  • A figure you can rely on, because nothing goes in the report unless the arithmetic proves it

Only what can be proven

Every finding in the report is backed by your own documents — the charge line, the contract clause and the delivery record it contradicts. If the evidence is not conclusive, it does not go in. You are never handed a number we cannot stand behind.

Nobody checks freight invoices line by line

Every consignment you ship becomes charge lines on an invoice, and checking them properly means putting the invoice, the rate agreement and the proof of delivery side by side for each one. Almost nobody has time for that, which is exactly why errors survive — and why they keep surviving month after month.

The errors are ordinary

Not fraud — system defaults, stale rate tables, manual keying, surcharges applied by rule rather than by circumstance. Routine mistakes that repeat every month because nobody catches them.

They compound quietly

Industry estimates put recoverable freight spend at roughly 3.6%. On a $2 million freight budget that is about $72,000 a year leaving the business without anyone noticing.

Most are fixable forward

A wrong rate on a carrier's table keeps overcharging until someone corrects it. Finding it once stops it recurring — the ongoing saving usually outlasts the recovery itself.

What is it likely worth to you?

Move the slider to your annual freight spend. The estimate uses the industry figure of roughly 3.6% — your actual result depends entirely on your carriers and your contracts.

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$250k$10m$20m

Not a quote, and not a promise — arithmetic on an industry average, shown so the scale of the question is concrete. The only way to know your number is to audit a month.

Estimated recoverable, per year
$72,000
at roughly 3.6% of freight spend

Find out what your carriers are really charging you

Most businesses have never had their freight invoices checked line by line against their own contract. One month tells you whether yours are clean — and what it is costing you if they are not.