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

Your Outsourced
VP of Transportation

Carrier RFPs, 3PL search, and ongoing shipping advisory.

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Carrier Network
15–25%
Average savings on last mile
4 to 6 weeks
End-to-end engagement
from kickoff to onboarded carrier

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

Flat fee for the work. You deal with carriers directly. No rate inflation, no opaque consolidator economics, no margin pulled from every shipment.

On your side of the table

Not a rate broker. The job is to help you pick the right carrier for your business, not upsell volume to one.

No long-term lock

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

Who We Work With

Brands and 3PLs

DTC Brands

Better carrier rates.
The right 3PL.

Two services brands hire us for: carrier RFPs that pull 15–25% out of your last-mile bill, and a structured six-week search when you need to find or switch your 3PL.

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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
Benji Stark Elster
Founder and CEO, Freak Athlete

The Engagement

How an engagement runs.

Six weeks, same shape on every engagement, regardless of tier.

  1. Week 1 Discovery + RFPs go out
  2. Week 2 Recommendation presented
  3. Week 3 Carrier intro + onboarding
  4. Week 4 Test pickup
  5. Week 5 First invoices reviewed
  6. Week 6 Final review + close

Common Questions

No. We negotiate better rates with your existing carriers first. If a new carrier offers meaningfully better pricing, we'll flag it, but you always decide.
4 to 6 weeks from kickoff to a fully onboarded carrier. Week 1 we send RFPs. Week 2 we present the recommendation. Weeks 3 to 6 we onboard the new carrier and review the first invoices.
Most shippers who come to us have negotiated before. We benchmark against our full carrier dataset. If you're already at market, we'll tell you. If not, we find the gap.
No long-term contract. Engagements are scoped per project at a flat fee. The retainer afterward is month-to-month, cancel anytime, no further charges after the month you cancel in.
Our direct carrier engagements work best for shippers at 50K or more per month on parcel (roughly 600K per year). If you're in the 10K to 50K range, book an intro call anyway and we'll suggest the right setup, usually a multi-carrier consolidator or a self-serve rate-shopping tool configured well, rather than a six-week RFP.
USPS, UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL, Veho, OnTrac, GLS, SpeedX, UniUni, and more. We benchmark across all of them.

Talk to your outsourced VP of Transportation.

Start with a 30-minute intro call. We learn your setup, prepare a complimentary shipping evaluation, and walk you through your savings potential and our recommendation on a follow-up call.

30-minute intro call. No commitment.

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