The market at a glance

Every indicator we track, over a week, a month and a year. Green is good for a carrier and red is not — which is not the same as up and down.

21 live series · every figure links to its full history

What moved

Fuel
Midwest (PADD 2) +6.9% on the week · now $6.680

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Fuel
New England (PADD 1A) +5.1% on the week · now $6.517

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Fuel
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) +4.5% on the week · now $6.340

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LTL
LTL +4.5% on the month · now 306.8

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Every indicator

Indicator Latest Week Month Year Two years
Dry van
Dry van truckload U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 207.6P · +1.9% +13.9%
Flatbed
Flatbed and specialized U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 166.2P · -0.8% +8.0%
Specialized, all U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 181.0P · -0.2% +6.0%
Refrigerated
Reefer rate per mile USDA Agricultural Marketing Service $4.32 +2.7% +4.8% +16.8%
LTL
LTL U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 306.8P · +4.5% +14.3%
Drayage and local
Local specialized U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 189.8P · 0.0% +1.7%
Household goods
Household goods U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 197.2P · +1.0% +13.2%
Fuel
National average U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.529 +3.9% +15.5% +74.2%
East Coast (PADD 1) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.268 +1.8% +14.0% +67.4%
New England (PADD 1A) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.517 +5.1% +14.0% +64.5%
Central Atlantic (PADD 1B) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.546 +3.7% +12.1% +67.5%
Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.139 +0.7% +14.7% +67.5%
Midwest (PADD 2) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.680 +6.9% +18.5% +79.0%
Gulf Coast (PADD 3) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.177 +2.5% +12.7% +81.7%
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.340 +4.5% +14.5% +69.2%
West Coast (PADD 5) U.S. Energy Information Administration $7.456 +2.8% +16.4% +64.8%
California U.S. Energy Information Administration $8.246 +2.6% +17.1% +65.4%
West Coast excl. California U.S. Energy Information Administration $6.791 +3.4% +15.9% +64.7%
All trucking
All trucking U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 213.3P · +1.9% +11.6%
General freight U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 227.6P · +2.6% +13.4%
Long-haul general U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 234.8P · +2.7% +14.1%

A dot means the series does not publish often enough for that horizon — a monthly index has no weekly move. Colour is intensity of the move, capped at ten percent, and green means good for a carrier: rates rising, fuel falling. P marks a figure the publisher expects to revise.

Rates by segment

What hauling sells for

Ten years of producer price indices. These are the only free public measures that separate dry van from flatbed from LTL — every comparable commercial series sits behind a subscription.

Prices received by carriers, indexed. Contract and spot blended, so these move later and more gently than a spot rate would. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All trucking. A weighted blend of everything below it, so it can mask segments moving in opposite directions. Useful as a headline, poor for a decision.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.
Fuel

Diesel by region

Five years of weekly retail prices, national and by Petroleum Administration for Defense District — the regions nearly every fuel surcharge in the industry is written against.

Retail pump averages including taxes, surveyed each Monday. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, National average. A retail pump average including taxes, surveyed every Monday. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move fast -- so read it as direction, not as what you will pay.East Coast (PADD 1). A retail pump average including taxes, surveyed every Monday. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move fast -- so read it as direction, not as what you will pay.Midwest (PADD 2). A retail pump average including taxes, surveyed every Monday. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move fast -- so read it as direction, not as what you will pay.Gulf Coast (PADD 3). A retail pump average including taxes, surveyed every Monday. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move fast -- so read it as direction, not as what you will pay.Rocky Mountain (PADD 4). A retail pump average including taxes, surveyed every Monday. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move fast -- so read it as direction, not as what you will pay.West Coast (PADD 5). A retail pump average including taxes, surveyed every Monday. Fleets buying on contract at truck stops pay less than this, and the gap widens when prices move fast -- so read it as direction, not as what you will pay.
No longer published

These series are kept for their history, but their publisher has stopped producing them: Truck availability, Grain truck use.