Year End "To Do" List - Have Your Freight Bills Audited!

As the year ends, businesses are making their year end "To Do" lists.  A primary one is to pull this year's files to place into storage.  This is the perfect time to begin what should be a routine throughout the year - have your freight bills reviewed again.  I noted in my earlier blog post that many companies assume they don't need an audit after their bills have been processed by a freight payment company.   The fact is, most of our post-audit work is following freight payment firms and we continue to find mistakes that are overlooked.

I'm surprised during this difficult economic period that more companies are not utilizing our services to bring cash back to them that they've already spent - and at no direct cost to them.  Our fee is on a contingency basis, a percentage of the collected refunds.  If we find nothing, there is no charge.  We can review bills back 180 days unless you have a longer time period stated in your agreements with your carriers. 

Once we've done our initial audit, we recommend that your freight bills be sent to us on a regular basis, generally quarterly.  We do have some clients though who have their freight payment companies send the paid bills to us directly.  Following our audit, we place them in storage boxes they've provided us.  When we return them to our clients, there's no need for their employees to do any further filing.

Visit our website today and learn more about how we can begin saving you money with our freight bill audit.  Our satisfied customers are happy they have utilized our services.  I believe you will be too.  Contact us now.

Why Should I Have My Freight Bills Reviewed Again?

Many businesses have their freight bills processed and paid by freight payment companies; reviewing the bills for errors, verifying Bill of Lading terms, and providing an accounting of the freight costs for them. Prospective customers often ask us why they should have the bills reviewed again since these processors have done the work already.

I respond that there is a dramatic difference between a pre-audit of the bills and our audit after the bills are paid. The constraints of processing a great volume of bills in a short period of time, necessitated by the limits imposed by carriers for paying bills, leaves little time for gathering information that may show that a bill is incorrect and an overcharge. Sometimes the pre-audit firm hasn't been given updated information that we subsequently receive. That leads to overcharges that have been overlooked because the pre-auditor is unaware of the change. And sometimes, it's just that people are fallible and miss mistakes that are there.

We point out to companies that they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. If the bill has been paid and overcharges exist, that money is rarely coming back without our audit. As we noted in an earlier blog post, money recovered for you goes straight to your bottom line. You know what your profit margins is and that money goes directly to your bottom line.

A carrier representative once asked if computers wouldn't put us out of business. I noted that as long as human beings were pressing the keys, mistakes will be made. And every time I think we have seen every way possible for errors to occur, someone comes up with another one.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can begin recovering overpayments you may have made.

Updated Website Launched!

Yesterday, we launched our updated website, http://www.tscinti.com/. We look forwarded to the new site being a gateway for introducing more businesses to the valuable service we offer.