Redesign your network. Cut your cost per mile.
We map your lanes, hubs, and handoffs, then model the redesign. You get a ranked implementation plan with the business case already built.
A 30-day network redesign with the business case built in.
Most networks weren't designed. They accumulated. Lanes were added one customer at a time. Hubs grew where the freight happened to land. Relays got built around historical drop yards. The result is the network you have today — and most of it is locally rational and globally suboptimal.
MarginHaul ingests your historical movement data — TMS exports, IFTA reports, hub dwell records, customer contracts — and runs it through advanced combinatorial optimization solvers. We map every lane, every relay handoff, every hub-to-hub flow, then test redesigns against your actual freight mix.
The output is a ranked implementation plan with the math already done. Not "here's a target state." A staged set of moves: which hubs to consolidate, which lanes to rebalance, which relays to collapse, which handoffs to restructure — each scored by dollar impact, implementation effort, and disruption risk. Findings Promise: if our Phase 1 diagnostic doesn't surface enough value to substantiate Phase 2, we tell you not to engage Phase 2.
What you walk away with.
Four artifacts your operations and finance leadership can act on the same week.
Lane and hub utilization map
Every lane scored by load factor, balance ratio, and recoverable margin. Every hub scored by dwell time and handoff efficiency. The map your dispatchers should have had on day one.
Optimized network model
A redesigned lane structure and hub topology, validated against 12+ months of your historical loads. Includes capacity assumptions, projected utilization, and modeled cost-per-mile.
Phased implementation matrix
10–15 specific moves sequenced into three phases. Each move scored by dollar impact, implementation effort, customer disruption risk, and dependency on prior moves.
ROI projection & Findings Promise
A defensible cost-per-mile reduction projection with full sensitivity analysis. Every engagement opens with a fixed-fee diagnostic. Findings Promise: if our Phase 1 diagnostic doesn't surface enough value to substantiate Phase 2, we tell you not to engage Phase 2.
How the 30-day engagement works.
Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed price. Designed to fit between your monthly ops review cycles.
Network intake
12–18 months of TMS data, hub manifests, IFTA reports, customer contracts, and current routing logic. Secure intake portal — zero IT burden on your team.
Map & diagnose
Full lane-by-lane and hub-by-hub diagnostic. Flow imbalances, capacity bottlenecks, and the corridors driving 60%+ of cost-per-mile inefficiency surface here.
Model the redesign
Combinatorial optimization across hub topology, lane structure, and relay handoffs. Every redesign move scored against historical freight to validate it actually works on your data.
Executive readout
Findings presented to ops, finance, and exec leadership. Phased implementation matrix handed off. ROI projection delivered, with our Findings Promise governing whether we recommend Phase 2.
How we visualize your network's hidden waste.
Every fleet has loops like this. Some are 30% empty. Some are 60%. Network redesign starts with seeing them clearly.
Solid green = loaded miles generating revenue. Dashed gray = empty repositioning. Atlanta to Birmingham along I-20 is loaded. Birmingham back through Gadsden to Chattanooga is empty repositioning. Chattanooga to Nashville on I-24 is loaded. The dogleg from Nashville back to Atlanta through Chattanooga is also empty. The first thing we measure on every Route Optimization engagement is your fleet's loaded-to-empty ratio across every lane pair.
Run a network simulation with your own scenariosWhat gets measured
- Lane utilization & balance ratios. Load factor by direction, imbalanced corridors, structural backhaul deficits.
- Hub consolidation opportunities. Dwell time, handoff frequency, geographic redundancy across drop yards and relay points.
- On-time performance vs. routing slack. Where buffer time is hiding cost, and where tightening will break service.
- Asset turns & cycle efficiency. Power unit utilization, trailer pool sizing, and the structural moves that change the curve.
- Customer mix sensitivity. Which accounts amplify network inefficiency and which subsidize it.
- Stem time & pickup/delivery patterns. The hidden non-revenue miles that don't show up in TMS deadhead reports.
See it in action.
A 200-truck Texas LTL carrier. Hub network collapsed from 14 to 9 relays. Hub dwell down from 7.2 to 3.4 hours. $1.85M annual savings.
200-truck TX LTL · 14 → 9 relays · $1.85M saved
Stem time cut from 52 to 24 minutes. Hub dwell halved. Phase-1 consolidation delivered the bulk of the savings without touching customer-facing service windows.