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All trucking 205.4Prelim ▼ -1.89% 1 Jul 2026
Dry van truckload 195.6Prelim ▼ -1.25% 1 Jul 2026
National average $5.454 ▲ 3.75% 17 Aug 2026
Reefer rate per mile $4.18 ▼ -1.98% 11 Aug 2026
Flatbed and specialized 168.2Prelim ▼ -1.18% 1 Jul 2026
Data brief

Diesel rose to $5.454 a gallon

The national average rose 19.7 cents in the week to 17 August 2026.

At the pump

Diesel, national average

Weekly retail on-highway diesel, two years.
The three markets

Dry van, flatbed and LTL do not move together

The only free public series that separate them. Five years, monthly, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price index.

Producer price indices for long-distance truckload, specialized freight and LTL. Indexed, not dollars — the axis does not start at zero. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dry van truckload. An index, not a rate. It tracks change from a base period rather than dollars per mile, and it blends contract and spot business, so it moves later and more gently than a spot rate would. NAICS 484121.Flatbed and specialized. The nearest public proxy for flatbed, but it is broader than flatbed alone: NAICS 484230 covers every kind of specialised long-distance hauling except household goods. No free source isolates flatbed by itself.LTL. LTL pricing is set very differently from truckload -- published tariffs, negotiated discounts and accessorials -- so this index is not comparable to the truckload one in level, only in direction. NAICS 484122.
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