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US LTL freight class rate index (SMC3 CzarLite public benchmark changes)

published tariff/general rate increase announcements from major LTL carriers

Feed detail
Measures
published tariff/general rate increase announcements from major LTL carriers
Source
Individual LTL carrier GRI press releases (Old Dominion, Saia, XPO investor/press pages — public)
Access
http
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
LTL general rate increase timing/magnitude is a leading read on small-shipment freight demand distinct from truckload spot indices like DAT
Maps to
LTL carrier equities (ODFL, SAIA, XPO)
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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