Logistic Consulting Services

Carriers negotiate thousands of contracts every single year, while you negotiate one every few years—an information imbalance carriers heavily rely on to protect their margins.

Gridlock bridges that gap by arming you with a proprietary database of real carrier rates and fees, ensuring you walk into every negotiation knowing precisely what optimal terms look like and how to secure them.

Securing a favorable contract is only the beginning. Carriers routinely raise base rates annually, adjust fuel tables and surcharges mid-term, let discounts lapse, and trigger automatic renewals on their own terms—all without raising a single red flag.

Gridlock safeguards your agreements using over 25 years of rate intelligence, holding carriers strictly accountable to what they signed and identifying every discrepancy between your contract terms and your actual invoices.

 Carriers and 3PLs negotiate thousands of contracts every single year, whereas shippers typically renegotiate only once every few years—often without benchmarking the new offer against historical baselines. That structural information imbalance is precisely why shippers consistently overpay.

Gridlock bridges that gap by leveraging over 25 years of real carrier pricing data across every shipping mode, ensuring you enter every negotiation fully armed with the market intelligence needed to identify optimal rates and secure them.

 Freight pricing is intentionally designed to obscure comparisons. Because class, density, NMFC codes, fuel tables, and accessorial fees vary wildly from carrier to carrier, two quotes for the exact same lane are almost never apples-to-apples. That opacity is precisely where your money leaks—giving you the insight needed so you walk into every negotiation knowing exactly what a competitive rate looks like and how to hold it. 

Carrier invoices are dense by design. Duplicate charges, misapplied surcharges, and DIM weight errors hide deep within the fine print—and carriers certainly aren’t going to flag them for you.

Gridlock analyzes every single shipment against your exact negotiated rates, catching the hidden billing errors your team rarely has the time to uncover, and systematically recovering the refunds you are already owed.

Freight invoices are inherently complex. Duplicate payments, misclassified shipments, and misapplied fuel surcharges hide across LTL, truckload, and international modes—and carriers certainly aren't going to flag them for you.

Gridlock audits every single shipment against your negotiated rates and contract terms, systematically catching the billing errors your internal team rarely has the time to find.

A signed rate agreement is no guarantee of accurate billing. Carriers routinely miss contracted discounts, misapply pricing tiers, and overlook earned incentives—leaving a costly gap between what you agreed to pay and what actually hits your invoices.

Gridlock validates every single charge against your contract’s exact pricing parameters, catching unapplied discounts and unclaimed incentives so you never leave earned savings on the table.

Finding and vetting a new carrier is no small task. Most logistics teams are already stretched thin managing daily operations, leaving little bandwidth to research alternatives, evaluate financial stability, or model network fit—so they stick with the familiar until it fails.

Gridlock bridges that gap by leveraging over 25 years of deep carrier and rate intelligence across parcel, regional, LTL, truckload, ocean, and air. Knowing the entire carrier landscape inside and out—who actually delivers on performance and who is built to last—we empower you to expand your network with absolute confidence rather than guesswork.