Logistics: The Bottom Line: Where Profit Disappears and How to Win It Back

Your fleet is 100% compliant. It's still losing you 8-15% of its operating cost every year - and nobody in the briefing room can tell you where. Green dashboard. Clean compliance record. 96% on-time delivery. That's what "well managed" looks like on paper. It's also exactly what a fleet looks like right before an external benchmark shows it's 19% above the industry median on cost per tonne. Sebastian Burkhardt has spent fifteen years in road transport and logistics - from planning screens at 5:30am to P&L responsibility for fleet operations in excess of £30 million. Logistics: The Bottom Line is the practitioner's guide to the gap almost every operator has: the difference between a fleet that looks managed and one that's actually earning. Inside, you'll learn to find and recover the money hiding in: - Dead-leg miles and empty running nobody tracks - Payload utilisation that's quietly running 20-30 points below best practice - Planning failures baked into route libraries nobody has reviewed in years - KPI dashboards designed to reassure, not inform - Compliance costs mistaken for the ceiling instead of the floor - Driver turnover eating margin nobody has properly costed - AI and automation, and where it actually moves the P&L versus where it just automates the same old inefficiencies Every chapter ends with a diagnostic tool you can run against your own operation this week - no consultants, no software, no theory. Just the questions that find the money. If you run a fleet, manage transport operations, or advise businesses that do, this book gives you the language and the tools to stop measuring yourself against your own history - and start finding the 8-15% that's walking out of your operation every single day. It's there. Go and find it.