Unlock Your Supply Chain's Potential:
Transportation Consulting Services
Welcome to Highroad Consulting, Ltd., a premier consulting firm that focuses on all modes of surface transportation. Our expert team specializes in providing tailored solutions for optimizing the transportation needs of businesses across various industries. With years of consulting experience, we have successfully helped clients cut supply chain costs, boost efficiency, and improve bottom-line performance. Contact us today to learn more about how our consulting services can help your business thrive.
The Highroad Story
We are experts in transportation and logistics, and we believe integrated logistics is the best way to address capacity issues. We are passionate about positioning our clients as market leaders with effective strategies, based on research and benchmarking. We offer simplified logistics planning with our analytical models, software, and institutional knowledge.
At Highroad, we believe there is a better way to develop winning logistics strategies. We aim to create fact-based initiatives that will sell to your leadership team, to your customers and to your carriers in a more valuable and less demanding way. Our mission is to help people achieve their goals strategically. We focus on developing logistics and supply chain strategies, and Highroad is a market leader, helping clients to address their freight costs with effective rail strategies and carrier strategies. Additional areas of expertise include economic and industrial development, and strategic site selection of manufacturing plants and distribution terminals. Contact us today and unlock your supply chain’s potential with Highroad’s consulting services.
Leading the Way in Transportation Consulting:
Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solutions
Highroad Consulting, Ltd. is the premier choice for transportation consulting services, we work internationally (US and Canada). With years of experience and a team of knowledgeable professionals, we offer comprehensive solutions to meet the unique needs of each client. Recognized as leading experts on rail transportation, our focus on cost-effective, sustainable solutions sets us apart from the competition, and our commitment to excellence ensures that every project is completed with the highest level of quality. Choose Highroad Consulting for your consulting needs and experience the difference of working with the best in the industry.
VIEWPOINT™
Access to Competitive Intelligence
VIEWPOINT™ is Highroad’s analytical process to benchmark rail rates. We produce competitive intelligence for shippers seeking to develop rail strategies and carrier strategies. This includes identifying leverage points and benchmarking against rates paid by the client’s direct competitors to access specific customers and markets, and development of strategies to confirm the client’s competitive position with the objective to achieve targeted cost savings.
A comprehensive report, with shipment profiles for each lane, summarizes findings and outlines recommended strategies to leverage strengths and weaknesses.
INSIGHT: RailEdition©:
Revolutionizing Rail Cost Calculations for Shippers
Read about the cost model we developed in 1998, and learn how it will give you an accurate assessment of railroad operating costs and the pricing elasticity of rail rates. Reach out today to subscribe.
The REIDI™ Model:
Boosting Regional Economic Growth Through Industrial Development
Highroad Consulting, Ltd.'s REIDI™ model is a powerful tool for driving economic and industrial development projects based on integrated logistics. The acronym stands for Regional Economic and Industrial Development Initiative, and the model's primary objective is to identify optimal locations for manufacturing plants and multi-modal freight terminals, such as transloads and warehouses, in the region. By doing so, the model can help create jobs, reduce supply chain costs for existing industries, and enable those industries to access new markets.
With the U.S. Department of Transportation forecasting a 49% increase in freight volumes over the next three decades, now is the time to take action to address the impending capacity crunch. Highroad Consulting, Ltd.'s REIDI™ model can help shippers stay ahead of the curve by providing valuable insights into logistics mapping, infrastructure requirements, and strategic site selection.
Don't wait until it's too late to optimize your supply chain costs and stay competitive. Contact Highroad Consulting, Ltd. today to learn more about how the REIDI™ model can help drive your economic and industrial development efforts.
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Meet Our Team
Meet the talented team at Highroad Consulting, Ltd. Our team is comprised of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds and skillsets. Read on to learn more about each team member and how they can help take your business to the next level.
Expert Litigation Support:
Highroad's Track Record of Success
Highroad Consulting, Ltd. provides expert testimony and litigation support to shippers and carriers in civil courts and before regulatory agencies such as the United States Surface Transportation Board (STB). Their experience in providing expert testimony has been invaluable in high-profile cases such as the STB hearing on railroad fuel charges. In this case, Highroad's white paper with cost evidence proved that railroads were over-recovering with their fuel surcharge programs, and their testimony on behalf of shippers helped lead to an STB decision that the surcharges were unreasonable. If you have a transportation litigation matter that requires expert support, contact Highroad Consulting, Ltd. today to learn more about our litigation support services.
Driving Efficiency and Cost Savings through
Strategic Consulting Services
Looking for ways to optimize your transportation and distribution operations? With cutting-edge technology and analytical tools, Highroad Consulting, Ltd.'s strategic consulting services offer winning solutions that maximize efficiency and reduce costs for your company. Examples include demurrage strategies and audits, and recalculation of demurrage; audits of mileage equalization invoices; post audits of freight bills payment, including filing and collection of over-charge claims.
RailXpress™
RailXpress™ is a comprehensive service that focuses on timely delivery of shipments to your customers, in addition to inbound shipments of raw materials to avoid plant shutdowns, ensuring quality service to your customers. This is achieved by daily tracing and management of your rail shipments and working with carriers to address first mile/last mile issues, and to troubleshoot delays and bad orders. By identifying and addressing repetitive choke points, we helped clients to improve the efficiency of their private fleets by more than 20%.
TREE™
TREE™ is an acronym for Transportation Rate & Efficiency Evaluation. It is a comprehensive audit of transportation and distribution operations that identifies opportunities for improving productivity and reducing costs. Highroad consultants benchmark transportation and supply chain infrastructure, cost components, and procedures, applying industry best practices in the evaluation.
ORBITOR™
Orbitor™ is Highroad’s fleet optimization model used for analyzing and optimizing rail and truck fleets. The analysis involves the expertise of consultants experienced in fleet optimization, supported by statistical software, computer calculations, and regression analysis of variables.
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