What we do…..
We connect industry professionals who want to offer their expertise on an hourly basis to business owners and financial decision makers in transportation. No need to overthink it, just tap into the power of short-term remote consulting to get the knowledge you need now without the expense of staffing it.
In times when companies need solutions quickly from experts without having to reinvent the wheel. In some cases, you might have a project that one of our experts have already trialed. If we do not have the expert already in our network, we will perform a search and qualify candidates for your project or benchmarking. Our network is designed to make it easy for companies to find the answers they need and from professionals within that subject matter. It's a win-win for everyone involved.
We understand the importance of making the right decision or developing a strategy, and that's where our network of experts are ready to help by the hour. If you are a transportation expert in ANY area, you are needed, so sign up today for paid consulting opportunities.
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Free Access to Consulting Gigs and Job Alerts. We are always increasing our collective knowledge and that’s why we are offering a free membership to attract people like you. This gives you access to consulting opportunities for an hourly rate, and notifications for job openings in your area of expertise.
Faster, better and quicker is how we survive daily in transportation. How we get there is through innovation and expansion. Both of these things take industry knowledge that money couldn’t buy until now. At gear shift we saw that no one firm could have all of the answers, but if we sourced hourly consultants in the same area as your hurdle, we could find someone confidentially that could. Transportation isn’t what it was even 5 years ago, if you’re not advancing, you’re falling behind. Find the new age of gathering decades of industry knowledge, from prescreened professionals, in hours.
Full Tank Members are primarily interested in consulting over job placement services. These Members receive the same early and premier access to consulting opportunities as Overdrive Members but without early job opportunity alerts.
Premier Consulting Opportunities ahead of the non-paid members. These opportunities could include both direct one-hour blocks or paid one-off opportunities.
Team Builder and Coach. Joining Full Tank's Team Building program puts you in our Management Tier as team leaders. Earn 15% of the premiums from each person you refer to Gear Shift for consulting.
For the one who wants it all... Overdrive Members will receive the same as lower tier Members, but with exclusive access to job alerts ahead of public postings, premium consulting opportunities and Leadership Tier earnings of 30% of your team’s consulting premiums.
Refer an Expert to your Team. When you refer a consultant to Gear Shift, they join your team. As an Overdrive Member you receive 30% of their consulting session premiums. There is no limit to the number of experts you can refer, or the number of people you can add to your team.
This is ideal for JOB SEEKERS that want to be in the know, and First. We actively collect job opportunities from companies and release them to all of our Members. The paid memberships receive the active jobs days ahead of the free consulting members. When the job market is tough it’s always better to have the inside knowledge.
Top Choice Consulting is for paid Members to have first option for all consulting opportunities in their vertical. It allows these Members to receive advance notice of upcoming or active consulting opportunities to apply for. It also allows these Members to have access to paid customer surveys when companies only have a few specific questions over email.
After spending over 10 years as a contract-consultant to several large nationally and globally-based consulting firms, I saw clearly that they capitalized on something that the transportation industry had not. Collective Collaborative Knowledge. They would collect industry knowledge from industry experts to advice financial clients where to invest in transportation. By sourcing the best contract experts in specific verticals they had endless opportunities for companies to have a Q&A with the best that industry had to offer. We at gear shift are thinking the same way. When you have an issue or hurdle that is outside of your team’s wheelhouse, you let us know. We find the best expert in your area of need and let them walk you through their knowledge in a one-hour-block consulting session. Each expert is prescreened to your specific qualifications to ensure that their knowledge is diverse and expansive on the subject matter. Each consult is between you along with anyone on your team, the subject matter expert and a compliance monitor to ensure no trade secrets or internal communications are being conveyed. All experts will be required to sign an NDA prior to the session and a full review of their knowledge in the areas of subject matter. The point is not to steal secrets through gear shift consults, it’s to assist companies with operational information only gained through years of experience in a single subject matter.
“People who enjoy meetings shouldn’t be in charge of anything” - Thomas Sowell
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we can provide a single one-off contract for random project assistance, or we can provide package pricing depending on your needs.
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All of our consultants are extremely knowledgeable in their field of expertise. They are well vetted for the prescreened questions provided by you and overall subject matter expert
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The conference will be set up by gear shift based on the availability of time and date of both the company and the expert. The conference will be scheduled for one hour unless determined by both parties during the consult that additional time is needed. In the event of such an occasion the rate will rounded to the next quarter hour. During the conference the company can ask the expert any questions unless they are deemed out of compliance for protected information.
Questions about trends, market news, publicly accessible data and all other subject specific information can be obtained. It’s exactly like having your own industry specific expert on staff for an hour to ask them how they resolved problems with previous or current conditions. (examples below)
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Company Driven Questions:
What are your best recruiting resources? Advertising / Marketing / Branding / Background Checks / How did you reduce ad spend / Did inward facing cameras cause issues and was the end result positive / How have you handled remote work / What’s the best DEI practices / How do I know if my HR is compliant / What should I prepare for before and audit / Best practices to lower carrier scores / which fuel management system do you prefer and why /
Investor Driven Questions:
Are we seeing a huge reduction of ad spend because of an increase in freight volumes or an increase in drivers / How would you rate Vendor A’s user experience vs Vendor B’s / Who are the main Vendors in this space and why is Vendor C not as preferred as the others / Are you seeing a forecast to cut spending or increase spending the next two quarters and why /
Insider Trading:
A unique resource to have our team perform a wellness check on your team. The best employees are the happy ones and we know some happy employees! We can do it outside of peak hours and limit it to less than 20 total minutes of employee engagement. It gives employers a true unfiltered anonymous look into how your employees see leadership. We can gain their trust to be open with their answers because we don’t sign their paychecks. Reach out to David direct and we can set up a quick overview and pricing.