Truck

For some of the largest truck shippers in North America, PLG Consulting has helped optimize the use of truck across a broad range of commodities, including bulk materials, chemicals, minerals and metals, oil and gas products, and manufactured goods.

Your operations depend on reliable transportation of raw materials and finished goods, and your bottom line depends on delivering to customers safely and economically. We help negotiate millions of dollars in savings from truck freight costs, while optimizing the capacity of truck resources to ensure supply chain reliability for clients. Let PLG Consulting experts help ensure your truck logistics fully support your commercial and business objectives.

Services include:

• Carrier negotiations, including benchmarking, bid processes, and RFP management
• Network optimization for lower freight costs and improved reliability

Trucking has long been a challenging business, with high competition, regulatory requirements, driver turnover, and capital requirements. PLG Consulting has helped carriers improve their businesses and lower operating costs with strategic and operational guidance, including:

• Driver retention strategies
• Dispatch process and technology optimization
• Logging compliance, including implementation of ELD systems and technology

Special focus:

Private fleets:  PLG Consulting works extensively in the area of private fleet operations, analysis, and costing. We can help you determine if private fleet operations is right for your organization.  For existing operations, we ca help you:

• Optimize assets and route networks
• Develop dispatching protocols and use of technology
• Integrate ELD data for compliance and operational improvement

For both carriers and private equity investors, PLG Consulting aids clients in developing practical and effective business strategies for current or prospective trucking operations that include:

• Market analysis and penetration strategies for a broad range of industry verticals and targets
• Competitive SWOT analysis
• M&A and growth strategies, including business model analysis and development

Our M&A advisory experience in the truck industry includes acquisition due diligence, investment thesis, and target identification for both corporate M&A and private equity clients and on projects throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico.