Free tools for freight brokers, 3PLs, and trucking companies. Built from the same workflows our teams run every day. Download them, use them, keep them. Each one comes from the workflows behind our pre-billing audits, carrier compliance monitoring, and AR management, so the checkpoints match how freight billing actually breaks.
The checklist our pre-billing audit workflow is built on. Catch detention, lumper, TONU, and rate discrepancies while they are still billable.
Enter three numbers and see where your DSO sits against the 45-65 day industry benchmark.
Composite receivables benchmarks for 2026: DSO by company type, aging distribution, short-pay rates, and invoicing speed.
A tracking sheet for FMCSA authority, insurance expiry, and safety ratings across your carrier list.
Plain-English definitions for the terms on rate cons, invoices, and PODs. From accessorial to TONU.
Practical guides on billing accuracy, DSO reduction, and running a freight back office.
Benchmark outcomes from the ClearLane operating model: DSO, POD turnaround, and accuracy targets.
The universal 12-point carrier invoice checklist plus LTL, reefer and cold chain, and heavy freight variants. Free on the page, with printable PDFs.
What a buyer asks a freight company to produce in diligence. Financial records, documented EBITDA add-backs, revenue quality, carrier files, and how to structure the data room.
Enter loads per month and average carrier cost to see what unaudited invoices cost per year at the 1-3% industry error rate.
Enter monthly loads and average load value to see what the 2-5% of billable charges that never make it onto invoices costs per year.
Enter your back-office employees and how many you expect to replace this year to see the fully loaded annual cost of running billing, AR, and compliance in-house.
Twenty-four accessorial charges defined: what each one is, who typically pays it, and the document that proves it. Detention through demurrage.
The planning figures in one table: DSO, days to invoice, invoice accuracy, overpayment and leakage ranges, and cost per employee.
Fifteen documents that carry a load from tender to payment: who issues each, what it proves, and what goes wrong when it is missing.
Compare a quick pay discount against a factoring fee as an annualized cost, with the math shown in full.
The formula, window and exclusions behind every number on this site. Covers DSO, billing accuracy, POD turnaround, and recovered revenue.
The tools above are the self-serve version. ClearLane runs the same audits, compliance tracking, and AR follow-up as a dedicated back-office team inside your TMS.
