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Complimentary Freight Analysis

Know exactly what your freight is costing you.

We analyze your freight spend, carriers, lanes, gaps, and risk — then hand you the documented findings. The report is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.

No cost
No obligation
You keep the report

What the report contains

01 Freight spend, consolidated by carrier, lane and mode

02 SKU-level landed cost — 99.7% accrual accuracy

03 Savings map, each item quantified and ranked

04 Risk and gap findings

05 Prioritized 90-day action roadmap

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About 30 seconds. A senior member of our team follows up personally.

Complimentary Freight Analysis

Know exactly what your freight is costing you.

We analyze your freight spend, carriers, lanes, gaps, and risk — then hand you the documented findings. The report is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.

Request your analysis

About 30 seconds. A senior member of our team follows up personally.

No cost
No obligation
You keep the report

What the report contains

01 Freight spend, consolidated by carrier, lane and mode

02 SKU-level landed cost — 99.7% accrual accuracy

03 Savings map, each item quantified and ranked

04 Risk and gap findings

05 Prioritized 90-day action roadmap

2025

First-time inclusion, Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Fourth-Party Logistics

99.7%

Accrual accuracy on freight cost data

12+ yrs

Average client relationship

30+ yrs

Managing mid-market freight since 1992

Why this one is different

A free analysis should leave you with something.

The phrase gets used loosely in this industry. It’s worth being precise about what you’re agreeing to before you hand anyone your data.

The category norm

A qualification form in an analysis costume

Across the market, a “free freight analysis” usually resolves into one of two things: a short form that produces a rate quote, or a data request that produces a sales proposal. Both are qualification exercises run to open a sale. When the conversation ends, you have nothing you didn't walk in with.

What Argus does

A diagnostic, and a report you own

We analyze your freight spend, carrier performance, lane design, data infrastructure, and risk exposure — then document the findings, the savings we identified, and a prioritized 90-day action plan. It's a real piece of work. You keep it and you can act on it with us or without us. That's deliberate: the findings earn the next conversation, or they don't.

The deliverable

What you actually receive.

Published in full, before you give us anything. If a diagnostic is real, its contents shouldn’t be a surprise.

01

Your freight spend, in one place

A complete breakdown of what you're spending, by carrier, by lane, and by mode — reconciled into a single view. For most operators this is the first time the whole number has existed in one document.

02

SKU-level cost visibility

Total landed cost by product, lane, and mode. Most providers can show you invoice totals. This shows what each unit actually costs to move — which is where routing decisions turn into margin decisions.

03

A documented savings map

Where money is leaking and why — stale contract rates, mode mismatches, accessorial creep, unmanaged carrier performance. Each opportunity is named, quantified, and ranked, so you can hand it to a CFO without translating it first.

04

Risk and gap findings

Carrier performance issues, financial blind spots, single points of failure, and the exposure sitting in your current setup. The things that are fine right up until the quarter they aren't.

05

A prioritized 90-day roadmap

Carrier performance issues, financial blind spots, single points of failure, and the exposure sitting in your current setup. The things that are fine right up until the quarter they aren't.

The report is yours regardless of what happens next. No obligation to continue, no contract attached to receiving it, and no requirement to change a single carrier relationship. We think the findings make the case on their own. If they don’t, you still keep the work.

How it runs

Three steps, and you control the pace.

We set the timeline together on the first call, then hold to it.

Step One

A scoping conversation

Short and specific. We map how your logistics operation is structured today, what's actually hurting, and whether this is worth either party's time. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you on this call.

You do the talking. No deck.

Step Two

You share what you already have

We tell you exactly which files we need, in whatever format they already exist — no new reports to build, no IT project, no system access required. Most teams pull it in under an hour.

Your data stays yours. Covered by NDA on request.

Step Three

The findings, walked through

We deliver the documented report and walk your team through it line by line — what we found, what it's costing, and what we'd do about it in what order. Then it's yours.

Timeline agreed in step one and committed to.

What comes after

For the clients who continue, the numbers are documented.

The analysis is a diagnostic, not a savings event. These are outcomes from the managed engagements that followed — real clients, industry-blinded.

Tier 1 Automotive Supplier

42%

Premium freight reduction

92%

Reduction in freight theft claims

99.7%

Accrual accuracy, up from under 90%

60 days

Full SAP integration

Global Consumer Electronics Brand

19%

Rate reduction

99.4%

OTIF, up from 91.2%

$3.1M

Territory savings

87%

Chargeback reduction

Health & Beauty Manufacturer

22%

Rate reduction

$5.25M

Direct savings

34.2%

Freight-to-sales reduction over two years

77%

Chargeback reduction

Argus contractually guarantees that client savings exceed our management fee. Across the book, clients recover an average of 2.7x the fees they pay. Savings are the result of the analysis, integration, and management that follow — they are measured and reported, not promised on day one.

Before you ask

The questions we get on the floor.

Why would you do this for free?
Because it works. Once an operator sees their freight operation documented in one place, the next step is usually obvious — and a meaningful share of the companies we run this for decide they want us managing it. The ones who don’t still walk away with a report they can act on. We think that’s a fair trade, and we’d rather earn the engagement on findings than on a pitch.
Freight invoices or spend data, a lane and volume picture, and your current carrier rates or contracts — in whatever format they already exist. Spreadsheets are fine. We don’t need system access, we don’t need your team to build anything new, and we’ll tell you the exact list on the scoping call before you commit to anything.
Not during the analysis, and not without your explicit written go-ahead afterward. Your carrier relationships are yours to manage. Nothing in this process puts them at risk or signals to the market that you’re looking.
No. There’s no contract attached to the analysis, no fee, and no commitment to proceed. The report is yours whether or not you ever work with us.
Yes — and it’s often more useful in that situation, not less. Argus is a 4PL: we sit above carriers, 3PLs, and brokers rather than competing with them, so we have no rate to sell you and no volume to protect. The analysis will show you how your existing vendors are actually performing. Sometimes the finding is that they’re doing fine.
It depends on the size and complexity of your network and how quickly the data comes across. We’ll scope a specific timeline with you on the first call and commit to it. We’d rather give you a date we can hold than a number that sounds good on a website.
Our own team. Argus has been managing mid-market freight since 1992, across automotive, manufacturing, construction, consumer electronics, chemicals, and health and beauty. You’ll work with senior people who have run operations like yours — not an analyst pool learning your industry on your time.
Then we’ll tell you that, in writing. It’s a real possibility and it’s a legitimate outcome — knowing your operation is sound is worth something too. We won’t manufacture a problem to create a sale.

A freight operation that has grown faster than the strategy managing it.

That describes most of the mid-market. The complimentary analysis is where it stops being a feeling and starts being a document.
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