Freight Management Services
Proven Freight Management from a Third-Party Logistics Solution provider specializing in freight brokerage and managed services.
Get StartedWhat Is Managed Transportation?
Managed transportation is a comprehensive logistics partnership that allows businesses to outsource aspects of the daily management of their transportation operations to an experienced 3PL. From custom RFPs built around shippers historical data, also timed with market conditions, carrier sourcing to shipment execution, freight bill auditing, TMS technology, and performance analytics, the managed logistics provider becomes an extension of your logistics team, helping reduce freight costs, improve service levels, and increase supply chain visibility while you stay focused on growing your business.
What’s included in TLI’s Managed Freight Program
- Carrier sourcing & network design tailored to your historical data
- Rate benchmarking & contract negotiation support
- Load tendering & execution (multi-modal: LTL/TL/parcel/intermodal)
- Freight audit & pay
- Claims management
- KPI reporting & business reviews
- Vendor/inbound routing program
- ViewPoint TMS access
Is Managed Transportation Right for You?
As your company grows, freight becomes more complex, requiring data-driven decision making and market timing. When your shipping activity increases there are more carriers to manage, more facilities to coordinate, more invoices to reconcile, and higher customer expectations to meet. Instead of adding headcount, many manufacturers, distributors, and importers choose to partner with TLI, gaining an experienced logistics team, advanced transportation technology, and decades of market expertise without the overhead of building an in-house transportation department.
Managed transportation is often the right fit for organizations that ship freight every day but want better visibility, lower transportation costs, stronger carrier performance, and a logistics partner that is accountable for continuous improvement, not just booking loads.
Managed transportation may be the right solution if your company:
- Wants to ensure the base rates as are competitive as possible and uniquely built around your actual lane and accessorial use.
- Operates multiple manufacturing plants, warehouses, or distribution centers.
- Ships a mix of LTL, truckload, expedited, intermodal, or parcel freight.
- Has transportation spending that continues to grow year after year.
- Relies on employees who wear multiple hats instead of a dedicated transportation team.
- Wants to benchmark carrier contracts and ensure rates remain competitive.
- Spends too much time resolving freight billing errors, claims, or service failures.
- Needs better shipment visibility, reporting, and performance analytics.
- Wants a strategic logistics partner focused on reducing costs while improving service, not simply moving freight.
- Need a freight rating engine to model “what-if” scenarios before making transportation decisions.
- Suspect they may be overpaying but lack the visibility to validate their transportation costs.
If several of these sound familiar, managed transportation can deliver measurable improvements in cost, efficiency, and service while allowing your team to focus on serving customers and growing the business. The goal of managed shipping solutions is not to add complexity, it is to eliminate the hidden costs, inefficiencies, and blind spots that often exist when transportation is managed without the right technology, data, and expertise.
Freight Management
Shippers face numerous challenges in managing their logistics operations effectively. Logistics management requires efficient transportation, warehousing, and distribution of goods, which can be challenging for any organization to handle independently. That’s where Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers come in to offer managed logistics services that help shippers optimize their supply chain and reduce transportation costs.
Logistics Management
Your competition isn’t just adapting – they’re transforming with scalable solutions to elevate their supply chains to a strategic advantage. Translogistics (TLI) transforms a company’s supply chain with easy to implement, scalable solutions. As a 3PL brokerage expert, we offer more than just logistics services; we provide solutions to constant headaches that arise from logistics management. Allow TLI to handle and mitigate single shipment issues while you focus on the bigger picture.
Experienced Expert Advice
TLI is a 3PL that has experience on brokerage and transportation management services for over 30 years. Our team’s experience allows us to effectively understand and mitigate the problems in supply chains. Freight transportation is a simple, but complex process. Partnering with a team that has a lot of experience will help when your company is experiencing specific challenges for the first time.
Free Access to Industry-Leading Technology
TLI invests to bring advanced technology to our shippers. Our ViewPoint TMS is available to all shippers and is powered by industry-leading technology. This provides shippers with free access to the best software.
Customized Solutions
Our team welcomes and supports customized solutions as we understand an out of box solution does not fit all shippers. Discuss with an expert the challenges you’re facing, and we will help customize a solution for you with our freight management services. Find the right solution, to a complex problem.
Start Making Shipping Easy.
Get in touch with an expert to discuss your challenges and start managing freight effectively.
Partnering with an Expert: TLI
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Industries
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LTL Carriers
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Y/y total Miles
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Y/Y total Pounds
How Managed Transportation Works
Transitioning to managed transportation doesn’t have to be disruptive. At TLI, we follow a structured implementation process that minimizes risk, ensures continuity, and creates a roadmap for continuous improvement. Rather than replacing your existing operation overnight, we become an extension of your team and implement solutions at a pace that fits your business.
Managed transportation is typically the right fit for companies spending $1 million or more annually on LTL and/or truckload freight, particularly organizations with multiple locations, complex shipping requirements, or transportation programs that have outgrown internal resources.
At this level of freight spend, even minor inefficiencies can translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs. Many shippers are surprised to learn they may be overpaying, not because they are doing anything wrong, but because they lack the technology, market intelligence, carrier benchmarking, and data-driven analysis needed to understand what their transportation program should cost. Without a transportation management system, rating engine, or scenario-based analysis, companies may be making decisions based on assumptions rather than actual opportunities for improvement. Managed transportation helps uncover those opportunities, optimize freight spend, and provide the visibility needed to make smarter logistics decisions.
Discovery & Transportation Assessment
Many companies continue operating based on the assumption that their freight rates are competitive because shipments are moving and carriers are servicing their needs. However, without a transportation management system, freight rating engine, contract benchmarking, and historical scenario analysis, it can be difficult to know whether your network is truly optimized, or if you are unknowingly wasting thousands of dollars each year on inefficient routing, outdated agreements, or missed savings opportunities.
Every engagement begins with understanding your business. We review your shipping locations, freight spend, transportation modes, carrier network, customer requirements, service expectations, and historical shipment data. This allows us to identify immediate savings opportunities, operational bottlenecks, and areas where technology can improve efficiency.
Carrier Procurement & Network Design
Managed transportation is designed for shippers that want to move beyond simply executing freight and start actively managing transportation as a strategic business function. Our transportation experts benchmark your existing carrier agreements against current market conditions. When appropriate, we conduct a competitive carrier RFP, negotiate pricing and service commitments, and build a carrier network focused on reliability, transit performance, and long-term value, not simply the lowest rate.
Technology Implementation
Your transportation network is configured within ViewPoint, TLI’s Transportation Management System (TMS). We establish dynamic routing guides, we can also integrate with your ERP or order management system when applicable, configure reporting dashboards, and provide training so your team has complete visibility into every shipment.
Daily Freight Management
Once live, TLI manages the day-to-day execution of your transportation program. This includes routing your inbound freight, and providing tracking to your procurement team. Our operations team tenders shipments, monitors pickups and deliveries, resolves service exceptions, communicates proactively with carriers, audits freight invoices, and continuously measures carrier performance. Your team gains a dedicated logistics department without adding internal headcount.
Continuous Improvement & Quarterly Business Reviews
Managed transportation isn’t a one-time project, it’s an ongoing partnership that involves continuous improvement. We regularly analyze transportation data, identify cost-saving opportunities, evaluate carrier performance, and review key performance indicators during Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs). As your business evolves, we refine your transportation strategy to improve service, increase efficiency, and reduce total freight costs year after year. Our goal isn’t simply to move your freight, it’s to build a sustainable transportation program that becomes more efficient, more transparent, and more valuable over time.
Freight Management Benefits
Manage Strategies. Delegate Problems.
Leverage advanced transportation technology to improve visibility, increase scalability, and make smarter, data-driven logistics decisions. Let TLI manage the day-to-day shipment execution and exception handling so your team can focus on strategic initiatives that drive business growth.
Gain Control. Share Visibility.
Give every department the visibility it needs, without sacrificing control. ViewPoint TMS provides role-based access so shipping, customer service, purchasing, accounting, sales, and management can access the information that’s relevant to them. Configure approved carriers, required reference fields, user permissions, routing rules, and custom workflows, all within a flexible, easy-to-use platform designed to fit your business.
Managed Freight Services
Services to optimize Shipping.
Account Management
A dedicated professional for your account. Your account manager will hold business reviews to discuss analytics, KPIs, and develop game plans for the future.
Contract Forecasting
Our logistics experts help forecast future costs comparable to your contracts, market data, and historical data. Ship today, plan strategies with budgets for tomorrow.
Vendor Routing
TLI’s vendor routing allows vendors to schedule their own shipments while being held to your guidelines. Control costs, and bring visibility to your inbound freight.
Managed Logistics FAQ
Freight brokerage arranges individual shipments carrier-to-carrier; managed transportation is an ongoing program where TLI handles network strategy, technology, reporting, and multi-mode execution as an extension of your logistics team.
Carrier sourcing and contract negotiation, load execution across LTL/TL/parcel/intermodal, freight audit and pay, claims handling, TMS access, and recurring KPI performance reporting.
Structures vary, some 3PLs charge a management fee, others build margin into per-shipment rates.
A TMS is software; managed transportation pairs software (like ViewPoint) with a dedicated team that runs it, sourcing carriers, auditing invoices, and resolving issues. You’re not just buying only a technology tool, you’re delegating the work.
Managed transportation is typically the right fit for companies shipping $1 million or more annually in LTL and/or truckload freight, especially organizations with multiple facilities, complex transportation requirements, or growing shipment volumes.
Yes, programs are built around your preferred carriers first, supplementing with TLI’s network only where there are gaps.
Managed logistics programs typically take 5-6 weeks to implement following the distribution of your historical shipping data. It often takes 3-4 weeks to get the motor carrier responses containing their custom RFP pricing, and another week to review the results and implement the TMS technology.