LTL
The reweigh added 45 lb. Nobody checked.
LTL is where the audit gets hard, which is why it is where the money sits. A carrier reweighs the freight, reclassifies it, or adds an accessorial, and each adjustment arrives as a line you have to disprove rather than a charge you agreed to.
Three adjustments, and what settles each.
Reweighs. The carrier puts the shipment on its own scale and re-rates the bill. Both sides get this wrong. A bill of lading with no tare weight on it invites a reweigh the carrier is right about. A reading that contradicts a documented tender weight and a dated scale ticket is a dispute.
Reclassification. A class 70 shipment gets billed at class 92.5. Disputing it means recomputing density from the real dimensions and weight, and knowing which NMFC item actually applies.
Accessorial creep. Liftgate, notify before delivery, residential, detention. Each is legitimate somewhere. The question is whether it was on the bill of lading for this shipment.
| # | Line | Billed | Contract | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linehaul - class 70 - re-rated at 1,225 lbBOL and dock scale ticket both read 1,180 lb | 1,332.97 | 1,284.00 | +48.97 |
| 2 | Fuel surcharge 31.2%Follows the re-rated linehaul | 415.89 | 400.61 | +15.28 |
| 3 | Residential delivery | 62.00 | 62.00 | 0.00 |
- Billed
- $1,810.86
- Contract
- $1,746.61
- Variance
- 3.7%inside 4% tolerance
- Recoverable
- $64.25
Example LTL invoice. A reweigh the shipment record does not support, and the fuel surcharge that follows it.
This kind of error does not stop after the first fix.
A wrong contract rate is a one-time problem. You enforce the contract, the carrier corrects it, and the recovery decays.
Quantity adjudication does not work that way. Every shipment gets weighed and classed again, so the failures regenerate. That is the case for auditing LTL continuously rather than once.
weekly LTL bills fail the audit tolerance at one freight forwarder, by its own estimate. In many, the carrier was right.
One operator's estimate, told to us directly. It is a datapoint, not a rate, and it is not ours.
Send one LTL invoice.
Pick one with a reweigh or a reclass on it. We audit it against your contract, the bill of lading and the classification, and tell you whether it holds up. A named person replies within one business day.