Transportation Management: Meet hauling challenges head-on
Optimize hauling costs with smarter technology and analysis.
Our comprehensive suite of rate analysis, benchmarking, lane bidding, dispatch, and freight payment capabilities combined with the industry’s most extensive hauler base and advanced technology platform, ensures you can manage hauling costs better. This powerful combination allows you to maintain high service levels while optimizing your logistics operations.
Ag Smarter – Dairy Symposium
September 15-16, 2026
World Dairy Expo
September 29 - October 2, 2026
MILK Business Conference
December 4-4, 2026
Learn about the benefits of a powerful hauling procurement strategy.
Benchmarking
Know what you should pay for every farm-to-plant and plant-to-plant move – benchmarks based on thousands of loads and lanes.
Savings
The best plant-to-plant rate market has to offer from a nationwide base of over 2,000 tanker haulers and active spot board.
Accuracy
Competitive, precise, fair, and sustainable farm-to-plant hauler pay and full-cost member contribution structures.
Identify pay inequities, streamline intake processes, or visualize a better design.
Farm-to-Plant
Plant-to-Plant Procurement
Turn Truck Optimization
SIM4food
Supply Chain Strategy
Farm-to-Plant
Get hauler and member pay right
Based on cost and efficiency factors from hundreds of haulers, the F2P Haul Cost model quantifies the cost for every farm, route, and destination. Get the granular data needed to design accurate, competitive, and sustainable hauling programs. We also help roll out and maintain hauling programs, enabling ongoing adjustment and excellence.
KEY BENEFITS
Hauler costs and margins
Quantify and rectify over and underpay situations.
Benchmarking
See how your hauling efficiencies and costs compare to those of your regional peers and the industry.
Hauling program design, rollout
Smart, accurate member contribution and hauler pay structures accounting for size, location, live load, and direct-ship pickup approaches.
Plant-to-Plant Procurement
Optimize cost while ensuring coverage
Our experts will help you target rate savings and put the correct bidding, negotiation, contract, and freight payment processes in place to achieve those targets. Hauler scorecards cover load acceptance, on-time delivery, and cost KPIs, enabling you to continuously measure and improve hauler performance.
KEY BENEFITS
Benchmarking
We assess your rates against regional rate formulas based on 75,000 tanker loads moving through our network.
RFQs
Use lane bundling and guaranteed minimums to maximize the attractiveness of your business.
Operational excellence
We dispatch, cover, and pay for every load while you maintain total control and cost transparency.
Turn Truck Optimization
Streamline intake processes
Excess plant turn time is the most significant waste in the dairy supply chain – squandering the efforts of thousands of drivers and hundreds of millions of co-op and processor dollars.
KEY BENEFITS
Benchmark
Our intake audits provide time, resource utilization, and cost benchmarks, pinpointing improvement opportunities.
Model
Our TTO model quantifies the improvement potential of every intake change – identifying the most cost-effective fixes.
Improve
We help you design and implement win/win/win plants, co-ops, and hauler gainsharing programs to motivate and reward turn-time improvements.
SIM4food
See the future for your plant design and operations by using 3D simulation software
SIM4food enables experimentation with plant layout, staffing, process, and automation to help you identify the optimal plant design.
KEY BENEFITS
Visualize
See the future of your food plant before you break ground.
Quantify
Measure design performance, throughput, resource utilization, and cost.
Experiment
Move equipment, adjust the recipe, test different product mixes and volumes – and see how performance is impacted.
Supply Chain Strategy
Benchmark your end-to-end milk supply chain
Determine how you compare to best practices on all dimensions of cost and efficiency. Identify and quantify improvements in the pickup, transport, and delivery of dairy commodities.
KEY BENEFITS
Benchmark
Examine your entire hauling approach to identify performance advantages and gaps.
Model
Work with us to develop new operational strategies to streamline end-to-end supply chain processes and costs.
Improve
We help you operationalize strategies that generate savings, enabling robust KPI regimes and ongoing improvement.
Identify pay inequities, streamline intake processes, or visualize a better design.
Farm-to-Plant
Farm-to-Plant
Get hauler and member pay right
Based on cost and efficiency factors from hundreds of haulers, the F2P Haul Cost model quantifies the cost for every farm, route, and destination. Get the granular data needed to design accurate, competitive, and sustainable hauling programs. We also help roll out and maintain hauling programs, enabling ongoing adjustment and excellence.
KEY BENEFITS
Hauler costs and margins
Quantify and rectify over and underpay situations.
Benchmarking
See how your hauling efficiencies and costs compare to those of your regional peers and the industry.
Hauling program design, rollout
Smart, accurate member contribution and hauler pay structures accounting for size, location, live load, and direct-ship pickup approaches.
Plant-to-Plant Procurement
Plant-to-Plant Procurement
Optimize cost while ensuring coverage
Our experts will help you target rate savings and put the correct bidding, negotiation, contract, and freight payment processes in place to achieve those targets. Hauler scorecards cover load acceptance, on-time delivery, and cost KPIs, enabling you to continuously measure and improve hauler performance.
KEY BENEFITS
Benchmarking
We assess your rates against regional rate formulas based on 75,000 tanker loads moving through our network.
RFQs
Use lane bundling and guaranteed minimums to maximize the attractiveness of your business.
Operational excellence
We dispatch, cover, and pay for every load while you maintain total control and cost transparency.
Turn Truck Optimization
Turn Truck Optimization
Streamline intake processes
Excess plant turn time is the most significant waste in the dairy supply chain – squandering the efforts of thousands of drivers and hundreds of millions of co-op and processor dollars.
KEY BENEFITS
Benchmark
Our intake audits provide time, resource utilization, and cost benchmarks, pinpointing improvement opportunities.
Model
Our TTO model quantifies the improvement potential of every intake change – identifying the most cost-effective fixes.
Improve
We help you design and implement win/win/win plants, co-ops, and hauler gainsharing programs to motivate and reward turn-time improvements.
SIM4food
SIM4food
See the future for your plant design and operations by using 3D simulation software
SIM4food enables experimentation with plant layout, staffing, process, and automation to help you identify the optimal plant design.
KEY BENEFITS
Visualize
See the future of your food plant before you break ground.
Quantify
Measure design performance, throughput, resource utilization, and cost.
Experiment
Move equipment, adjust the recipe, test different product mixes and volumes – and see how performance is impacted.
Supply Chain Strategy
Supply Chain Strategy
Benchmark your end-to-end milk supply chain
Determine how you compare to best practices on all dimensions of cost and efficiency. Identify and quantify improvements in the pickup, transport, and delivery of dairy commodities.
KEY BENEFITS
Benchmark
Examine your entire hauling approach to identify performance advantages and gaps.
Model
Work with us to develop new operational strategies to streamline end-to-end supply chain processes and costs.
Improve
We help you operationalize strategies that generate savings, enabling robust KPI regimes and ongoing improvement.
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average reduction in plant-to-plant haul spend
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farm-to-plant hauling subsidy reduction
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load coverage
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Commodity Management
Improve commodity schedule and carrier network.
Milk+
Take control of scheduling from farm to plant.
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