Transaction audit & recovery · Trucking carrier (TL and LTL)
Bill every LTL shipment to the tariff.
LTL revenue leaks a few dollars at a time — a shipment that scans denser than its declared class, an accessorial that never made the invoice, a rate keyed off the wrong MRA tier. Today it takes a desk of clerks reading reweigh tickets and rate agreements by hand.
The reality
Only about one in six freight bills is fully accurate.
LTL pricing turns on three documents that rarely agree: the MRA that sets the rate, the NMFC that sets the class, and the BOL the shipper filled out. A load declared at class 70 that reweighs denser is mis-rated; an accessorial performed at the dock never makes the invoice; a discount tier lands on the wrong lane. Reading every transaction against all three, by hand, is why 5 to 8% of freight bills carry an error.
Catching it is worth real money — class errors alone touch 4 to 6% of shipments at about $145 each — but only if someone pulls the reweigh ticket, the inspection certificate, and the rate agreement for every flagged bill. That has always meant more auditors, so the leakage scales right along with the freight.
How the operator runs the audit desk
Pro #LX-88421 · audit
auditing- BOL + reweigh ticket pulled
- Declared class 70, density scans class 92.5
- Checking rate against MRA tier
01Read the transaction
Pulls the invoice, BOL, and reweigh ticket, and checks the rating against the MRA end to end.
Variance · Pro #LX-88421
flagged- Reclass 70 → 92.5, inspection cert attached
- Liftgate performed, never billed
- Building the correction packet
02Flag the discrepancy
Reconciles class, weight, accessorials, and discount against the tariff, and marks the variance with its backup.
Recovery · Pro #LX-88421
recovered- Rebilled to class 92.5 with cert
- Accessorial added to the invoice
- Interline settlement reconciled
03Correct and recover
Reclasses or rebills against the MRA, issues the correction with evidence, and reconciles the interline settlement.
The outcome
−65% of freight-audit work off the team
Every shipment rated and billed to the tariff.
- Every transaction read against the MRA, NMFC, and BOL — not sampled
- Reclass and reweigh corrections made with the inspection cert and scale ticket attached
- Accessorials captured and interline settlements reconciled, without an audit clerk per lane
Common questions
Transaction audit & recovery
- What does the Transaction audit & recovery operator do?
- Catching it is worth real money — class errors alone touch 4 to 6% of shipments at about $145 each — but only if someone pulls the reweigh ticket, the inspection certificate, and the rate agreement for every flagged bill. That has always meant more auditors, so the leakage scales right along with the freight.
- What impact does the Transaction audit & recovery operator have?
- −65% of freight-audit work off the team. Every shipment rated and billed to the tariff.
- How does the Transaction audit & recovery operator work?
- Pulls the invoice, BOL, and reweigh ticket, and checks the rating against the MRA end to end. Reconciles class, weight, accessorials, and discount against the tariff, and marks the variance with its backup. Reclasses or rebills against the MRA, issues the correction with evidence, and reconciles the interline settlement.
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