TRANSPORTATIONSECTOR · UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Finance leadership for transportation, fleet and logistics.

Freight is priced off the load board against a rule-of-thumb cost per mile that is a year or two stale. It excludes maintenance escalation on an ageing fleet, the insurance increases that have run ahead of everything else, and the fixed cost that only gets absorbed if the trucks are actually moving. Cost per mile has been climbing while spot rates have not, so the fleet can haul at a loss for months without anyone seeing it. It surfaces as an inability to fund the next replacement cycle — and by then the equipment is older, maintenance is higher, and the hole is feeding itself.
THE MEASURE THAT FINDS ITFully loaded cost per mile, by lane, by truck and by driver
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT, BELOWREMOTE-FIRST, ON SITE WHEN IT CHANGES THE OUTCOME
How We Run It Here
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What a finance function in this sector actually needs.

We build a true cost per mile from the ground up and split it into fixed and variable, because utilization — miles per truck per week — is the lever that decides whether the fixed half is ever recovered. Then revenue per total mile against revenue per loaded mile, so deadhead is priced rather than absorbed.

Fuel is run as a program: surcharge mechanics that actually track the index, card controls, fuel tax apportionment, and miles per gallon reported by driver and by unit. Maintenance cost per mile is trended by unit age, which is what turns the replacement decision into arithmetic instead of a feeling.

Asset financing is structured deliberately — buy against lease against lease-purchase, trade cycles, residual risk, and what each does to your covenants. Freight revenue is recognized as the shipment is in transit rather than on delivery, with the period-end accrual that requires, and driver classification is reviewed on both sides of the border before somebody else reviews it.

WHO YOUR CFO DRAWS ON FOR THIS SECTOR

Fleet costing specialists, plus asset finance for the replacement and covenant modeling

What Changes
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What you can do afterwards that you cannot do now.
Price a lane against your own cost rather than the market’s. Know which trucks and which drivers earn their place. Fund the next replacement cycle from a plan instead of a scramble.
Who Holds The Seat
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Matched to the sector, not to the postcode.
We hire for what somebody has run rather than where they live, which is the only reason we can put a CFO in your seat who has already done this in a business like yours.
YOUR CFO, FOR THIS SECTORHas priced freight against a cost per mile they built themselves

With a named controller alongside them, a named backup on every seat, and the specialist bench behind both — all inside one fixed monthly fee.

THE OTHER ELEVEN
The rest of the scope.
Nobody needs all of it at once. The diagnostic decides which two or three matter first in your business, and you keep that assessment either way.
Construction and tradesDistribution and wholesaleManufacturingProfessional servicesMulti-unit and hospitalityProperty and real assetsTechnology and recurring revenueHealthcare and clinical groupsFranchise and multi-unit operatorsConsumer brands and e-commerceNonprofit and member organizations
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What Happens Next

Your sector is one conversation away from a written answer. Start with what is actually going on.

One hour on your business, with the CFO who would hold the seat rather than a salesperson. Nothing to prepare and nothing to sign. A written note back within two working days saying what we heard and what we would look at first.
BOOK A CONVERSATIONREAD THE AGREEMENT
ONE HOUR · NO CHARGE · A WRITTEN NOTE BACK WITHIN TWO WORKING DAYS
THE HOURWhat the business does, how the cash moves through it, and what would have to be different in a year.
THE NOTEWhat we heard and what we would look at first, in writing, within two working days.
THE PODA CFO who has run finance in this sector before, with a named backup who already knows your file.
THE STANDARDClose by the seventh working day, pack on the eighth, and a published response standard in between.