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Delivery-area surcharges on rural ZIPs
Carriers maintain rural surcharge maps. Without negotiation, these stack on every shipment to those addresses.
Industries · Agriculture
Heavy parts, rural addresses, oversize boxes.
Ag and equipment parts ship heavy, often oversize, and often into rural addresses that trigger delivery-area surcharges. Each line is negotiable individually. Most aren't worked.
Where the money leaks
Three problems we see in every ag & equipment audit.
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Heavy and oversize compound
Parts above 70 lb or 48 inches trigger multiple surcharges per shipment.
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Long lead times mean MBG isn't typical
Most ag shipments don't qualify for late-delivery refunds, so the audit is on surcharges and dim, not SLA.
Our playbook
Four levers, specifically for ag & equipment.
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Rural surcharge caps
Delivery-area surcharge caps negotiated for the rural ZIPs you ship into most.
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Heavy + oversize bundles
Heavy-weight and oversize fees negotiated together rather than billed independently.
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Dim divisor renegotiation
Heavy dense parts get a tighter dim factor negotiated against actual mix.
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Freight + parcel under one rep
Equipment dealers running mixed freight and parcel get a single relationship with carriers.
Best fit if you are
- ✓Ag equipment parts dealers
- ✓Farm supply distributors
- ✓OEM ag parts and aftermarket
- ✓Rural-heavy parcel shippers
Probably not for you if
Pure tractor-and-implement freight operations — we handle parcel side.
Other industries
Different verticals, same audit-first approach.
E-commerce & DTC
Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, multi-channel — we cover the full carrier stack you're juggling.
Open playbook →Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
Carrier rates are the second-biggest line on your bid sheet. We negotiate them as one consolidated book.
Open playbook →Distribution & B2B Wholesale
B2B parcel is a different problem from DTC. We treat it that way.
Open playbook → Want the ag & equipment playbook on your invoices?
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