Reference tables — the tariff, written once

Governing rules — 13 provisions

The rules are the prose of the tariff: what is included, how billable weight is determined, what happens on exceptions. Most are administrative. A few decide real money, and the pallet minimum is the one to read twice.

Accessorials — 11 extra-service charges

Each accessorial carries a rate, a unit, a minimum and a maximum — detention, layover, loading and unloading, lumper service, after-hours work, holding deliveries, advancing charges. The minimum and maximum columns are the ones that surprise people: a charge with a floor bills the floor on a short event, which is why a twenty-minute delay can cost the same as a two-hour one.

Fuel, LTL — 60 rows, a percentage of linehaul

The LTL schedule is a ladder against the DOE national average diesel price: ten-cent bands, one percentage point added per band, starting at one percent and topping out at sixty percent of linehaul across the full diesel range. Because the bands are regular, any diesel price inside the range resolves to exactly one row — at five-dollar diesel, for instance, the surcharge is forty-one percent of the linehaul rate.

Fuel, TL — 98 rows, and a different unit entirely

The truckload schedule is not a percentage. It is five-cent bands adding one cent per mile per band, running from a cent a mile up to ninety-eight cents. At the same five-dollar diesel, truckload adds seventy-eight cents a mile. Two tables exist because the two modes price fuel in genuinely different units, and reading a TL figure as a percentage — or an LTL figure as cents per mile — is the fastest way to misquote a lane by a wide margin.

• LTL — Percentage of linehaul. Ten-cent diesel bands, one point per band.
• TL — Dollars per mile. Five-cent diesel bands, one cent per mile per band.
• Both — Regular bands, so any diesel price in range resolves to a single row.

The pallet minimum decides more money than any rate does

The LTL minimum weight per pallet position does not change a rate; it changes the weight the rate is applied to, which is a larger effect. A pallet carrying a few hundred pounds of actual freight bills at the minimum instead — so on a fragmented, single-pallet network the billed weight can be several times the weight actually shipped. That is why the recommendation hiding in most freight analyses is consolidation rather than renegotiation, and why the Insights guide's pallet arithmetic starts from this rule.

And it is where implausible quotes go wrong

The same rule explains most surprising Fast rate results. Because billed weight is pallets multiplied by the minimum, an implausible pallet count does not produce a slightly wrong price — it produces a billed weight nothing like the one entered, which no contract can price sensibly. When a quote looks absurd, read this page before you go looking for a missing rate.

What these tables are holding up

The row counts here — 60 LTL fuel rows, 98 TL fuel rows, 13 rules, 11 accessorials — appear verbatim inside customer deliverables produced elsewhere in the product. That is the payoff: the tariff is written once, verified once, and inherited everywhere, so a correction here propagates without anyone rebuilding a workbook.