- Scott Elliott founded Strong Tower Consulting, LLC in Minnesota in 2008 and serves as Founder and President.
- His background before the founding was carrier software training, implementations, and project management.
- Since 2008 he has led TMS conversions, version upgrades, database migrations, staff training, and on-site go-live weeks.
- He leads the firm's advisory practice and works directly with clients on strategy, systems, and delivery.
- He named the company after Proverbs 18:10, and the firm's values follow from that name.
The founder of Strong Tower Consulting
Scott Elliott is the Founder and President of Strong Tower Consulting, LLC, a freight transportation technology consulting firm he established in Minnesota in 2008. The firm has been in continuous commercial operation for more than 18 years. It provides independent systems architecture and technology advisory to motor carriers, freight brokers, private fleets, and enterprise clients.
The firm is founder-led. In practice that means the person who started the company still leads its advisory practice and still works directly with clients. A carrier that engages the firm is not handed off after the first meeting to someone it has never met. Scott's role covers strategy, systems, and delivery, which is the full arc of a technology decision from the first assessment to the week the new process is running on the dispatch floor.
This page is intentionally narrow. It does not list schools, prior employers, certifications, or personal history, because the firm's published record does not state them. What the record does state is enough to explain who Scott Elliott is to a client: someone who came up through the training and implementation side of carrier software, then built a consulting firm around that experience.
Ground-floor roots in carrier software
Scott founded the firm after years on the ground floor of carrier software training, implementations, and project management. The firm's original team page described him as having been on the ground floor, training many trucking companies on how to become more profitable. That phrase is the most direct statement in the record about his career before 2008, and it is worth taking literally.
Training a dispatch office means learning how freight actually moves through a company: how an order is entered, how a load is planned and dispatched, how it becomes an invoice, and how a driver gets paid. Running an implementation means living with the gap between how a system is supposed to work and how the people using it actually work. Project management means holding a date, a budget, and a scope together while both of those realities press on the plan.
That ground-floor perspective became the foundation of the firm's approach. Before recommending anything, understand how freight moves through the operation, from order entry and dispatch to billing and driver settlements. The firm's leadership page puts the same idea plainly: a plan only counts if it works on the dispatch floor at 6 a.m. on a Monday.
Founding Strong Tower Consulting in Minnesota in 2008
The firm was founded in Minnesota in 2008. From the beginning the firm has served one industry: freight transportation. Its clients are trucking companies, LTL carriers, brokers, 3PLs, and private fleets, and the people it works with are owners, CFOs, operations managers, and IT managers.
The firm's original website stated its goal in one sentence, and the firm still publishes it today as a principle: "Our goal is to give high quality services to our clients, through our knowledge, experience, customer skills, and personal integrity." That is a company statement, not a personal quote, and it describes the standard Scott set for the firm when he founded it.
The firm has long published this position as a third party: it is not there to sell more products, but to help clients get more out of their existing investment, and if the answer is not more licenses or features, the firm will say so. Recommendations are based on what is best for the client's company, never on a license sale.
The firm's mission, as published, is to deliver high quality IT solutions and services to clients in the transportation and logistics industry, to go the extra mile, to exceed client expectations, and to create loyal client relationships.
The work since the founding
Since founding the firm, Scott has led TMS conversions, version upgrades, database migrations, staff training, and on-site go-live weeks for carriers. Client letters held by the firm describe him training staff remotely, traveling on site for go-live week, and serving as an adjunct project manager. Much of that work has been on Truckmate, including upgrades and go-lives. That experience is the basis for the firm's legacy TMS advisory and migration and TMS implementation and go-live practices.
The firm organizes its services into four practice groups that follow the life of a technology decision: Strategy and Alignment, Process and Project Delivery, Data and Intelligence, and Infrastructure and Support. Engagements follow a consistent model the firm calls analyze, streamline, deliver, sustain. Scott's oversight centers on strategy and on data and financial systems, including IT strategy, the fractional freight CIO role, rate matrix work, SQL data mining, carrier M&A technology due diligence, and general ledger integration.
The subject matter is the operational core of a carrier: TMS platforms, EDI 204, 990, 214, and 210 transactions, driver settlement, rate and tariff engines, accounting integration, SQL data, ELD and telematics, and applied AI. Scott's experience includes designing transportation software down to the database, which the firm treats as a way to understand what is under the hood of a client's existing system rather than as a reason to replace it. He leads the firm alongside Duncan Stickings, Head of Development, whose profile is on the leadership page.
Documented areas of focus
Scott Elliott's published profile lists six areas of focus. They are stated here as written, with links to the related practice pages.
- IT strategy and technology planning. For carriers, brokers, and fleets. See IT strategy and planning.
- TMS selection, implementation, upgrades, and go-live leadership. See TMS selection.
- Business process review. Across dispatch, billing, settlements, and AR. See business process optimization.
- SQL data mining and reporting. On freight data. See SQL data mining.
- Project and program management. Planning, testing, and communication that keep projects on time, on course, and on budget.
- Staff training and ongoing support. The same work the firm's record says he started with.
These areas describe how an engagement with the firm tends to run. A strategy question usually becomes a systems question, a systems question becomes a process and data question, and the answer is not finished until staff are trained and the new process holds.
How the firm advises
- Start from how freight moves through the client's operation
- Work with the systems the client already runs
- Say so when staying with the current system is the right answer
- Stay involved through go-live and support
What the firm avoids
- Recommendations tied to a license sale
- A sales pitch followed by a hand-off to strangers
- Plans that do not survive the dispatch floor
- Leaving before the gains hold
Principles and the Strong Tower name
Scott named the company after Proverbs 18:10: "The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe." It is a Christian company, and the firm treats the name as a standard for how it serves clients: reliable when systems fail, honest about what a business needs, and committed for the long haul.
Five values guide the firm's work, as published on its mission and values page: integrity, service and support, loyalty, teamwork, and work/life balance. For a client, those translate into honest recommendations, steady help when systems fail, and advice that is not tied to a software sale.
The firm's longer history, using only what the record shows, is on Our History. The company overview is on About the Firm, and the brand page is Strong Tower Consulting.
Frequently asked questions
Who founded Strong Tower Consulting?
Scott Elliott founded Strong Tower Consulting, LLC in Minnesota in 2008. He is the Founder and President of the firm and leads its advisory practice.
What was Scott Elliott's background before he founded Strong Tower Consulting?
The firm's published record describes his background as carrier software training, implementations, and project management. The original team page said he had been on the ground floor, training many trucking companies on how to become more profitable.
What does Scott Elliott focus on today?
His documented areas of focus are IT strategy and technology planning, TMS selection, implementation, upgrades, and go-live leadership, business process review across dispatch, billing, settlements, and AR, SQL data mining and reporting, project and program management, and staff training and ongoing support.
Why is the firm named Strong Tower Consulting?
Scott Elliott named the company after Proverbs 18:10. It is a Christian company, and the firm treats the name as a standard for how it serves clients: steady, honest, and there when systems fail.
Does Strong Tower Consulting have a sister company?
Strong Tower Consulting, LLC and Exspeedite LLC are separately organized sister companies under common ownership.
How can a carrier or enterprise client reach Scott Elliott?
Call the firm at 763-244-1373 or use the contact page at strongtoweronline.com. Most relationships start with a conversation and a Technology Assessment.
Talk directly with the people who lead the firm.
Strong Tower Consulting provides independent systems architecture and technology advisory for motor carriers, freight brokers, private fleets, and enterprise clients. Call 763-244-1373 to discuss your systems, data, and workflows, or request a Technology Assessment.
Published October 23, 2026 by Strong Tower Consulting, LLC. Founded 2008 in Minnesota by Scott Elliott. Truckmate is a trademark of its respective owner. The firm is an independent consulting firm and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the trademark owner.