Highroad provides consulting expertise of transportation professionals with backgrounds and experience tailored to the specific needs of each project. Project teams include transportation professionals with senior management experience or middle management line experience in their respective functional areas, with staff support.
Highroad's experts have backgrounds in all modes of surface transportation including truck, rail, intermodal, barge and ocean.
We have assisted clients throughout North America and Canada; our most distant client is in Beijing, The Republic of China. Highroad's team of more than thirty consultants includes Executive Consultants, Senior Consultants, Consultants and in-house staff. Shown below is a summary of functional areas addressed by our consultants and staff.
- Administration
- Freight Payment Audits
- Filing & Collection of Overcharge Claims
- Billing & Repair Auditing
- Shipment Management (RailXpress™)
- Audits of Mileage Equalization Invoices
- Best Way/Least Cost Sourcing & Routing Guides
- Operations
- Warehouse Operations
- Commercial Transportation
- Private Carriage
- Rail Operations (Freight and Commuter)
- Operating Rules
- Locomotive Emissions & Alternative Fuel Studies
- Safety Programs & Safety Audits
- Hazardous Material Response Programs
- Customer Service Systems
- Quality Assurance & Quality Control
- Intermodal & Automotive Operations
- Fleet Maintenance Management Systems
- Desktop Valuations of Rail Equipment
- New Car Construction
- Structural and Mechanical Design
- Technical Development of Engineered Products
- Rail Car Inspections
- Mechanical inspections
- Interior/Exterior Coating Inspections
- Track & Bridge Inspections
- Strategy
- Benchmarking Studies (VIEWPOINT™)
- Strategic Planning
- Comprehensive Transportation Strategies
- Logistics Modeling and Logistics Mapping
- Financial Analysis
- Fuel Surcharge Strategies
- Rail Costing & Regulatory Costing
- Doublestack Economics
- Industrial Engineering
- Fleet Optimization Studies (Orbitor™)
- Asset Planning
- Supply Chain Management
- Turnaround Management
- Due Diligence for Mergers and Acquisitions
- Marketing & Pricing Programs for Carriers
- Contribution-Based Management Programs for Carriers
- Tactics
- Rate and Contract Negotiations
- Negotiations for Equipment Acquisitions
- Expert Testimony
- Transportation Management
- Fleet Management