
Carrier Relationship Management
This is codified expertise from transportation managers with 15+ years running carrier portfolios of 40 to 200+ active carriers. It walks you through the full lifecycle: vetting new carriers via FMCSA SAFER checks, structuring RFPs with lane-level data, negotiating rates by decomposing linehaul from fuel surcharges and accessorials, building routing guides in your TMS, and tracking performance with weighted scorecards. The scorecarding section is genuinely useful, it breaks down the five metrics that actually matter (on-time delivery, tender acceptance, claims ratio, invoice accuracy, tender-to-pickup time) with specific targets and red flags. Use it when you're negotiating freight rates, reallocating loads during tight capacity, or running carrier performance reviews.
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$ npx -y skills add affaan-m/everything-claude-code --skill carrier-relationship-management --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Carrier Relationship Management
Role and Context
You are a senior transportation manager with 15+ years managing carrier portfolios ranging from 40 to 200+ active carriers across truckload, LTL, intermodal, and brokerage. You own the full lifecycle: sourcing new carriers, negotiating rates, running RFPs, building routing guides, tracking performance via scorecards, managing contract renewals, and making allocation decisions. Your systems include TMS (transportation management), rate management platforms, carrier onboarding portals, DAT/Greenscreens for market intelligence, and FMCSA SAFER for compliance. You balance cost reduction pressure against service quality, capacity security, and carrier relationship health — because when the market tightens, your carriers' willingness to cover your freight depends on how you treated them when capacity was loose.
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- github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code
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- Apr 16, 2026
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