LTL freight check · contingency only

Your carriers are overbilling you. You have 180 days to say so.

We read LTL invoices line by line against your rate agreement — misapplied discounts, unsupported accessorials, missed weight breaks, fuel surcharge overages. You pay a share of what we recover. Recover nothing, owe nothing.

Send 90 days of invoices
First analysis
Free

No contract to look · findings back within a week

SAMPLE FINDING illustrative
PRO 012345678990 days ago
Billed class 85$642.10
Class 70 per your FAK$521.80
FAK
Residential delivery$88.00
Commercial dock, POD signed$0.00
No support
Fit

When this is worth your time, and when it isn't.

Worth it You spend roughly $500K–$15M a year on LTL, you have a negotiated rate agreement, and nobody reads the invoices line by line.
Not worth it You already use a freight audit and payment provider, you ship mostly parcel, or your LTL spend is under about $250K a year. In those cases the recovery won't justify anyone's time, including yours.
The clock

After 180 days the money is gone.

49 U.S.C. § 13710(a)(3)(B) — "A shipper must contest the original bill or subsequent bill within 180 days of receipt of the bill in order to have the right to contest such charges."
However wrong the invoice was, once that window closes it stays paid. Note the clock runs from receipt, not invoice date — which usually costs you several days people don't account for.
Method

Ten checks. Every finding is a line, not an opinion.

Each invoice is checked against your actual rate agreement and the documents from the shipment itself. You get a PRO number, the billed figure, the correct figure, and the evidence — so you can verify every line before we file anything.

01

Duplicate billing

Same PRO billed twice, or one BOL billed under two PRO numbers.

02

Weight verification

Billed weight against your BOL. Any increase requires a reweigh certificate — we request it.

03

Weight-break optimisation

Where declaring the next break's minimum weight rates cheaper than the actual weight, most tariffs require the lower charge.

04

Cube and density

Whether the dimensional maths is correct, and whether a re-dimension is backed by an inspection certificate.

05

Discount application

Your contracted discount, on the right lane, against the right base tariff.

06

Fuel surcharge

Billed percentage against your contract's scale at the correct DOE weekly diesel index date, including whether your cap was honoured.

07

Minimum charge

Contracted minimum versus billed, and minimums applied where the rated charge already exceeded them.

08

Accessorial support

Every accessorial needs evidence on the BOL or POD. Residential and limited-access fees on commercial dock locations are the most common find.

09

FAK exceptions

Whether the class collapse you negotiated was actually applied. When this breaks it usually breaks across every shipment in the range.

10

Classification review

Flagged for verification against your own NMFC subscription. We identify likely misclassification; the class determination stays with the licensed data.

The arithmetic

One invoice, worked out in full.

Three separate errors on a single shipment. Note that correcting the class also reduces the fuel surcharge, because fuel is calculated on linehaul — errors compound, which is why line-by-line matters.

As billed
Freight, class 85$642.10
Fuel surcharge @ 28.5%$183.00
Liftgate delivery$95.00
Residential delivery$88.00
Total billed$1,008.10
As it should have been
Freight, class 85$642.10
Class 70 — FAK applies$521.80
Fuel @ 28.5%$183.00
Fuel @ 24.0% — contract cap$125.23
Liftgate — requested on BOL$95.00
Residential delivery$88.00
No support — commercial dock$0.00
Total correct$742.03
Recoverable $266.07

Figures are illustrative, not a client result. The method is exact — check any line against your own tariff and rate agreement. That is the entire point of showing it.

The range

What's typically sitting there.

Monthly LTL spend
$10k$500k
Typical annual recovery range $12,000 – $30,000

Overcharge recovery typically runs 2–5% of LTL spend. This is an industry range, not a promise about your freight — yours could be lower. The only way to know is to look at your actual invoices.

Who you'd deal with

One person, named, reachable.

A note from the person doing the work

I started FreightCheckHQ after going deep on how LTL invoices actually get built, and finding how much of the bill is plain arithmetic that nobody ever checks — weight breaks, fuel surcharge caps, accessorials billed with no supporting document.

I'm not a twenty-year freight veteran, and I'd rather say that than have you find it out. It's exactly why the first check is free and why every number I hand you cites the line, the document, and the contract clause it came from.

You'll deal with me start to finish — the email, the analysis, and the call are all the same person. I answer my own inbox, usually the same day.

You don't have to trust me. You can check me.

Prajyoth
Prajyoth Reddy M (Jyo) · Founder, FreightCheckHQ
Your documents

What happens to what you send.

You email them. We read them, check them, and return findings. That's the whole of it.
We don't sell, share or aggregate your rate data, and we won't use it in work for another shipper.
We keep them for the engagement plus whatever period supports a claim filed on your behalf. Ask us to delete at any point and we will, in writing.
We contact no carrier without a signed Letter of Authorisation from you, and you approve every claim before it's filed.
The terms

What people ask before sending a stranger their invoices.

Nothing to look. The first analysis is free and yours to keep — you can work the findings yourself and owe us nothing. If you'd rather we pursued them, we agree a percentage of what actually comes back before we start, and we're paid only on money you actually receive. Nothing on anything a carrier rejects.

Findings back within a week of receiving your invoices. Once a claim is filed, the timeline is the carrier's — billing adjustments generally take a few weeks, and we'll tell you where each one stands rather than guessing at a date.

No. Email us PDFs. There's no portal, no account, no software, and nothing to integrate. If you'd prefer to redact commercially sensitive fields first, we can run the first pass from invoices alone.

It shouldn't. Most billing errors are systems errors — mis-set rate tables, default accessorials, stale tariff dates — not anyone acting in bad faith. Claims go to the carrier's billing adjustment desk as routine corrections, you approve each one before it's filed, and we don't contact a carrier without your written authorisation.

Ninety days of LTL invoices to start. Bills of lading and delivery receipts help a lot — they're the evidence for challenging accessorial charges. Your carrier rate agreement unlocks most of the remaining checks, but send that only once you've seen a finding and decided we're worth it.

The reality

Judge the findings, not the website.

FreightCheckHQ started in 2026. There's no logo wall here and no case studies yet, because there hasn't been time for any. That is exactly why the first analysis is free, why every number we hand you is checkable against your own paperwork, and why you owe nothing until money actually lands back in your account.

Send 90 days.
Find out what's there.

Attach your last 90 days of LTL invoices to an email. Findings back within a week — line by line, with what each one is worth and how long you have left to claim it.

jyo@freightcheckhq.com

Contingency only · no software · if there's nothing there we'll say so