Most brands have 15–25% in untapped savings on last mile

Your Outsourced
VP of Transportation

We guarantee savings on last-mile shipping. Or your money back.

Why Iron Margin

Beyond the Rate Sheet

Most shipping consultants pocket a markup, lock you in, and disappear. We don't.

Direct relationships, no markup

Iron Margin charges a flat fee for the work. You deal with carriers directly. No rate inflation, no opaque consolidator economics, no margin pulled out of every shipment.

On your side of the table

We are not a rate broker. Iron Margin sits on your side of the carrier decision. The job is to make sure you pick the right carrier for your business, not to upsell volume to a carrier.

No long-term lock

Month-to-month retainers, scope-flex on engagements, no 12-month minimums. If we stop earning it, you should leave.

Who We Work With

Brands and 3PLs

DTC Brands

We negotiate better carrier rates.
You keep growing.

Most brands have 15–25% in untapped savings on shipping. We benchmark your rates, negotiate with vetted carriers, and get you better pricing.

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3PLs

Own your rates.
Own your clients.
Own your growth.

Most 3PLs rely on carrier relationships they don't control. We help you build and own a competitive rate program.

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Confirmed Savings "

Iron Margin really meticulously got costs down. He saved us multiple 6-figures, and of course, that's something that's going to scale for us.

Benji Stark Elster

Founder and CEO, Freak Athlete

The Guarantee

If we do not find more savings than we charge, you pay nothing.

Every engagement starts with a benchmarking analysis. If the savings we identify do not exceed our fee, the engagement is free. No fine print.

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Common Questions

No. We negotiate better rates with your existing carriers. If a new carrier offers meaningfully better pricing, we will flag it, but you always decide.

4–6 weeks from kickoff to a fully onboarded carrier. Week 1 we send RFPs. Week 2 we present the recommendation. Weeks 3–6 we onboard the new carrier and review the first invoices.

Most brands that come to us have negotiated before. We benchmark against our full carrier dataset. If you are already at market, we will tell you. If not, we find the gap.

No long-term contract. We work on a project basis. If you do not save more than you pay us, you owe nothing.

We work best with shippers spending around 50K or more per month on parcel (roughly 600K per year). Below that, you are usually better off on a self-serve tool like ShipFare or Shippo. We're happy to point you in the right direction.

USPS, UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL, Veho, OnTrac, GLS, SpeedX, UniUni, and more. We benchmark across all of them.

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Upload your parcel data and get a full carrier savings breakdown within 24 hours.

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