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The Strangely Complex Job Of A Freight Auditor Posted By: Mark Etinger

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To audit is in and of itself a rather straightforward task. One need only to examine records, check for accuracy and inaccuracies, make necessary adjustments and verify the final results. Given a finite set of facts, objects, numbers and records, to successfully make an audit should not prove radically difficult or insurmountable. It should be a concrete task based on static elements. Yet the job of a freight auditor is no such thing. Such an auditor deals in a series of profound uncertainties, changing facts, unfounded projections and numerous factors influenced by anything from global politics to international weather patterns. What exactly makes a freight auditor's job so complex? Though determining freight rate is at its simplest a calculation of amount against distance (how much coal over how many miles, for example), in today's world any such determination of final cost is strictly beholden to oil prices. Since freight is inherently about transport, and the primary force driving transport is the combustion engine, it is intrinsically tied to the cost of that commodity that powers these engines. Were the price of oil to be fixed and unchanging, this would lead to no further complications, but that is not the case.

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