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Parcel shipping for automotive aftermarket.

Tame oversize, hazmat, and returns on parts and tires.

Aftermarket parts and tires hit nearly every expensive corner of the carrier rate card at once: dimensional weight, oversize and additional-handling fees, hazmat rules, and heavy returns. We model all of it against your shipments and cut the cost.

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Where parts & tires lose money
Additional handling (tires)High
Oversize / large packageHigh
Hazmat fees & limitsMedium
Returns / core returnsHigh
Modeled against your own shipment data.

The aftermarket shipping problem

Parts and tires are bulky, heavy, sometimes regulated, and frequently returned, which stacks surcharges most shippers never fully audit.

Tires trigger handling and oversize fees

A tire shipped unboxed is billed additional handling, and large tires or bundled sets cross oversize and large-package thresholds. These fees often rival the base rate.

Heavy, bulky parts get DIM-billed

Body panels, bumpers, and exhausts are big but light, so dimensional weight bills them well above their actual weight, while heavy parts push large-package and over-maximum limits.

Hazmat parts carry rules and fees

Batteries, airbags, brake fluid, and aerosols are regulated dangerous goods with packaging, labeling, surcharge, and air-transport restrictions, plus steep penalties for getting them wrong.

How ShipScience helps

We pair auditing that catches every misapplied fee with negotiation on the surcharges that define this category.

Negotiate oversize and handling terms

We target additional-handling, large-package, and DIM terms against your real parts-and-tire mix.

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Audit every surcharge and hazmat fee

ActiveAudit catches misapplied handling, oversize, residential, and dangerous-goods charges and disputes them.

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Recover damage and loss claims

SimpleClaims files claims on the heavy, high-value parts that get damaged or lost in transit.

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Rethink parcel versus freight

Network Strategy models when bulky parts and tire volume should move by freight or regional carriers instead.

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On parts and tires, additional-handling and oversize fees frequently exceed the base shipping rate, and hazmat and core returns add cost most teams never audit. That stack is exactly where expert negotiation and continuous auditing return the most.

How aftermarket brands win with ShipScience

Two of the largest automotive aftermarket shippers turned parcel losses into recovered margin with ShipScience.

Rough Country
$1.45M in carrier reimbursements recovered, plus ~$45K a month in ongoing savings
“ShipScience met us where we were and helped us build something we couldn't have built on our own. They've recovered over a million dollars for us.”
Patrick Just, CEO, Rough Country
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ECS Tuning
Doubled annual claims recoveries to ~$200K, and saved 233+ hours of claims work every month
“They turned our parcel losses into real, measurable recovery.”
Jason Moore, Senior Manager of Logistics, ECS Tuning
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Frequently asked

Can you reduce additional-handling and oversize fees on tires?

Often, yes. Boxing tires avoids some handling fees outright, and we target the thresholds and per-package rates in negotiation while ActiveAudit disputes any that are misapplied.

Do you handle hazmat auto parts like batteries and airbags?

We don't file your dangerous-goods paperwork, but we audit hazmat and dangerous-goods surcharges for errors and factor the rules and fees into your rate and carrier-mix strategy.

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