When you engage Strong Tower Consulting, you work with experienced people who have trained dispatch offices, run installations, and stood beside carriers on go-live week.
Scott founded Strong Tower Consulting in 2008 after years on the ground floor of carrier software training, implementations, and project management. He leads the firm's advisory practice and is the founder and architect of the sister software company, Exspeedite.
Full profileDuncan brings 20+ years of software development with extensive project management and quality assurance experience. He formerly led Training and Installation at Maddocks Systems, coordinating installations, training, and go-lives across North America.
Full profileStrong Tower Consulting is a founder-led firm. That matters for clients in a practical way: the people who lead the company are the same people who understand your systems, and they stay involved in the work. You don't get a polished sales pitch followed by a hand-off to someone you've never met.
Our leaders came up through the hands-on side of freight technology: training staff, installing and upgrading systems, managing projects, testing software, and supporting carriers through go-live. That background shapes how we advise. We know that a plan only counts if it works on the dispatch floor at 6 a.m. on a Monday.
Motor carrier operations cannot afford generic management advice. Strong Tower Consulting pairs enterprise systems architecture with rigorous software development discipline, giving carriers hands-on leadership at every stage of their technology lifecycle:
| Executive Leader | Practice Oversight | Freight Systems Heritage | Core Technical & Operational Domain | Direct Motor Carrier Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Elliott Founder & President |
Group 01: Strategy & Alignment Group 03: Data & Financial Systems |
Founded Strong Tower Consulting in 2008 in Minnesota; master transportation systems architect; founder of sister company Exspeedite LLC. | IT strategy, Fractional Freight CIO, rate matrix optimization, SQL data mining, M&A tech due diligence, QuickBooks/Sage GL sync. | Eliminates technical debt, recovers unbilled freight revenue, and ensures IT capital investments directly increase operating margins. |
| Duncan Stickings Head of Development |
Group 02: Process & Project Delivery Group 04: Infrastructure & Support |
20+ years enterprise software development and QA; formerly led Training & Installation at Maddocks Systems across North America. | TMS data migration, SQL database performance tuning, ETL automation, 3-2-1-1-0 data protection, emergency support SLAs. | Guarantees zero data loss during core database conversions, prevents system downtime, and resolves complex technical outages within minutes. |
| Leadership Synergy & Governance Dual Executive Oversight |
All 21 Specialized Practices & Carrier Health Assessments | Combined 40+ years in the freight software trenches, terminal operations, and database engineering. | Vendor-neutral evaluation, dual-architect signoff on data migrations, independent fiduciary counsel for fleet owners. | Provides carriers with builder-level technical depth without software vendor bias; protects fleets against predatory technology contracts. |
I am very impressed with Scott Elliott and the depth of his knowledge as well as concerted effort to be a true business partner of ours.
Scott Elliott was the key to our successful software transition. He had a cool head and a never say die attitude which no doubt played a huge part in our conversion success.
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Scott founded Strong Tower Consulting as a Christian company, named for Proverbs 18:10. Our leadership holds itself to the values the firm has kept since its early days: integrity, service and support, loyalty, teamwork, and work/life balance. For clients, that means honest recommendations, steady help when systems fail, and advice that is never tied to a software sale.
Strong Tower Consulting never requires you to buy our software. Our leadership's software experience exists to serve your systems, whatever they are.
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