Freight Billing Audit — analytics

Pre-audit — your numbers

The sample desk’s: Sample Shipper Inc.’s nine bills in every state, audited by the same engine. Yours take their place the moment you bring bills in.

Post-audit — your numbers

The sample post-audit’s: the same nine bills paid in full, audited afterwards — overpayments, the bill paid twice, one recovery with ZetaVolt’s share taken out.

The pre-audit deskThe post-audit desk

What has been published about freight bill auditing

Industry estimates, not a guarantee. Your results depend on your carriers, contracts and bills.

How often bills are wrong, and where

• About 4.5% of LTL freight bills had a billing error — 11,881 errors in nearly 250,000 LTL invoices audited.

  Source: AFS Logistics, “Stat’s Incredible: Common LTL Invoicing Errors” · published undated · read 2026-10-29

• 42.8% · 14.4% · 12.3% · 10.3% of those errors were accessorial charges, fuel surcharges, freight class, and the discount, minimum or rate.

  Source: AFS Logistics, “Stat’s Incredible: Common LTL Invoicing Errors” · published undated · read 2026-10-29

What a pre-audit saves

• 2% to 4% of monthly freight spend saved by catching invoice errors with a prepayment audit, as one provider described its customers’ results.

  Source: Inbound Logistics (trade magazine) · published September 2015 · read 2026-10-29

• About 0.5% ongoing savings on the audit itself once a shipper is an established client of an audit provider (“around one-half of 1%”).

  Source: Inbound Logistics, Logistics Planner · published September 2023 · read 2026-10-29

What a post-audit can still claim

What can still be claimed depends on the clocks: a bill contested in writing within 180 days of receipt (49 U.S.C. § 13710), an overcharge suit within 18 months (§ 14705), and your contract’s own window when it is shorter. Older bills are goodwill — the carrier may decline.

ZetaVolt will publish its own clients’ results here once there are case studies.

The latest in freight and supply chain

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