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ABOUT

Who We Are

Freight People,
Consulting Minds

Our Story

Onward began on a loading dock, watching good plans stall in the gap between the spreadsheet and the road. We built one company that owns both sides: dependable multimodal transportation and the senior consulting that keeps every mile earning its cost. The result is a partner that moves your freight and sharpens the system around it.

2014Founded in Chicago
20Countries Served
180+People On The Team
Semi truck on a mountain highway
Cargo aircraft loading on the tarmac
Aerial view of a container rail yard
Truck in motion at golden hour
Container port cranes at dusk
What Guides Us

Principles We Refuse
to Discount

The same values shape a lane plan and a boardroom review: clear numbers, shared risk, and a bias toward the practical fix over the pretty slide.

Measured, Not Guessed

Every engagement ends in a number the board can read. We instrument the lane before we promise the saving, then prove it after.

Skin in the Route

We do not hand over a deck and disappear. Our consultants ride along, find the leaks, and stay until the fix holds inside your operation.

Onward by Design

Growth should never mean chaos. We build capacity and process that scale together, so peak season looks boring and margins keep climbing.

How We Work

One Team From First
Audit to Steady State

We map every active lane, rate, and handoff, then agree on the numbers we will move before a single truck changes.

Route design, carrier strategy, and warehousing come together in one plan, priced and sequenced so nothing lands as a surprise.

We stay embedded, watching telemetry and tuning the network so the saving compounds instead of drifting back over time.

Open highway toward the mountains On The Ground
38%Freight Cost Saved
2.4xFaster Turnaround
By The Numbers

A Decade of Miles,
Measured

The scoreboard behind the story. Real ranges from real engagements, averaged across the network we run today.

640MMiles Coordinated
99.2%On-Time In Full
18+Industries Served
$120MFreight Spend Managed
The People

Senior By Default,
On Your Dock By Choice

No junior handoffs. The people who scope your network are the people who run it, and you will know them by name.

Portrait of Mara Ellison, Senior Consultant
Mara Ellison Senior Consultant
Daniel Kruse Head of Network Design
Priya Raman Director, Freight Operations
Jonas Okafor Lead, Cost & Carrier Strategy

Partners we move for across 20 countries

Onward©

Let's Move Your
Business Onward