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Data freshness board: how old is every number on this site?
Public trucking data is published on different clocks: some every week, some once a year, some frozen in a 2015 survey. This board lists every dataset we use, where it came from, when we last fetched it, how old the data inside is, what it is used for and where it stops being useful. The dates are read from our own files, not typed by hand.
Status at a glance
- Fresh 26
- Snapshot 1
- Aging 0
- Stale 0
- Historical by design 3
Counts update in your browser from the retrieval dates below. They were last computed on the server on Oct 9, 2026. A chip reads the age of our copy against our own shelf life. It does not say how old the data inside the copy is. For that, read the vintage column.
Shelf life is our rule, not the publisher's
Shelf life is the number of days after which we consider a copy worth re-fetching. It is our own rule of thumb, set per dataset. Fresh means inside the shelf life, aging means up to twice that, stale means older. Snapshots of fast-moving data such as weather alerts are labelled snapshot and never shown as live.
Every dataset, its dates and its limits
Retrieval times are UTC, written into each file when it was fetched. Data vintage comes from the file itself: the dataset's own update stamp, its newest period, or its reference year.
Fuel and weather
| Dataset and source | Status | Retrieved from the source | Data vintage | Used for | Limits and licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EIA weekly retail diesel, build snapshot U.S. Energy Information Administration https://www.eia.gov/opendata/ | Fresh read 1 day ago shelf life 10 days | Oct 8, 2026, 12:25 UTC | Newest week in the file: Oct 5, 2026 | Diesel figures on diesel prices, in the tools and in state-to-state lane cost. | Regional weekly pump average (U.S., PADD regions, California). Not a state or city price, not your fuel-card price, not a freight rate. U.S. government work, public domain. Attribute EIA. |
| EIA weekly diesel series, 2018 onward U.S. Energy Information Administration https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 10 days | Oct 9, 2026, 14:32 UTC | Newest week: Oct 5, 2026 | Seasonality and the 104-week series on diesel seasonality. | Weekly Monday average in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. The API caps one request at 5,000 rows. U.S. government work, public domain. |
| EIA weekly diesel history files U.S. Energy Information Administration https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 10 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:03 UTC | Weekly history files, all regions (newest week not stored in the header) | Long-run diesel history behind the seasonality views. | Same limits as above. Read from public history files, no key. U.S. government work, public domain. |
| NWS active alerts National Weather Service https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api | Snapshot, not live read 1 day ago shelf life 1 day | Oct 8, 2026, 12:25 UTC | 335 alerts active at the moment of retrieval | Weather risk and the alert counts in state-to-state lane cost. | Alerts expire within hours, so this is a snapshot of one moment. Counted by the state of the issuing office. Not a delay prediction. U.S. government open data. Do not imply NWS endorsement. |
| NOAA Storm Events, state by month NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/ | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 400 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:04 UTC | Calendar years 2021 to 2025 (349,030 records read) | Weather calendar and freight season planner. | Event-days depend on reporting as well as weather. Not delay minutes, not severity. U.S. government work. Do not imply NOAA endorsement. |
Carrier safety, authority and insurance (FMCSA)
| Dataset and source | Status | Retrieved from the source | Data vintage | Used for | Limits and licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company Census File (az4n-8mr2) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/az4n-8mr2 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 09:55 UTC | File updated Oct 8, 2026, 11:27 UTC | Carrier counts by state and size on carrier safety, USDOT lookup and the state pages. | Self-reported on MCS-150, filings can be years old. Aggregates only, no carrier records stored here. No licence stated in the dataset metadata. Mass commercial use is under legal review. |
| Vehicle Inspection File (fx4q-ay7w) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/fx4q-ay7w | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:04 UTC | File updated Oct 9, 2026, 10:53 UTC; inspections from Oct 8, 2023 to Oct 6, 2026 | Crash and inspection patterns. | Inspections are not random, enforcement targets trucks, lanes and times. Open file covers late 2023 onward. No licence stated in the dataset metadata. |
| Crash File (aayw-vxb3) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/aayw-vxb3 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:04 UTC | File updated Oct 9, 2026, 10:28 UTC; latest report date Oct 6, 2026 | Crash and inspection patterns and the state pages. | State reporting speed varies, recent months are incomplete. Counts, not rates. No licence stated in the dataset metadata. |
| SMS AB PassProperty (4y6x-dmck) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/4y6x-dmck | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 09:59 UTC | File updated Sep 13, 2026, 07:02 UTC; 24-month inspection window | Carrier safety, trust timeline. | FMCSA does not publish BASIC percentiles for property carriers in this file. Out-of-service rates are pooled counts, not safety ratings. No licence stated in the dataset metadata. |
| Insurance filings, aggregates (qh9u-swkp, ypjt-5ydn) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/qh9u-swkp | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 14:31 UTC | Files updated up to Oct 9, 2026, 13:13 UTC | Insurance lapses, trust timeline. | National and state counts only. A cancellation date on a filing is not proof of a lapse. Per-carrier detail is not stored. Licence recorded as unknown in our file. Under legal review. |
| Out-of-service orders (p2mt-9ige) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/p2mt-9ige | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 14:32 UTC | File updated Oct 9, 2026, 08:32 UTC | Authority revocations, trust timeline. | Orders, not carriers: one carrier can have several. Different from a roadside out-of-service result. Licence recorded as unknown in our file. Under legal review. |
| Authority revocations and history (sa6p-acbp and related) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration https://data.transportation.gov/d/sa6p-acbp | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 14:31 UTC | Files updated up to Oct 9, 2026, 13:17 UTC | Authority revocations. | The open files give no reason for a revocation, so insurance cannot be named as the cause. Aggregates only. Licence recorded as unknown in our file. Under legal review. |
| USDOT lookup index (derived from three FMCSA files) Built by us from FMCSA data https://data.transportation.gov/d/az4n-8mr2 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 14 days | Oct 9, 2026, 12:39 UTC | 307,785 carriers, 1 to 50 power units, active property authority | USDOT lookup and trust timeline. | A copy at one moment. Brokers and carriers over 50 trucks are not in it. SAFER is the record of truth. See the three FMCSA datasets above. |
Roads, freight and trade
| Dataset and source | Status | Retrieved from the source | Data vintage | Used for | Limits and licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Bridge Inventory by state USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (FHWA data) https://services.arcgis.com/xOi1kZaI0eWDREZv/arcgis/rest/services/NTAD_National_Bridge_Inventory/FeatureServer | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 400 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:03 UTC | FHWA data as of June 20, 2025; annual state submissions | Bridge conditions. | A poor rating is not a closure. Posting rules may not apply to your truck weight. Work of the U.S. government, unrestricted public use. |
| Border crossings, trucks USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (keg4-3bc2) https://data.bts.gov/Research-and-Statistics/Border-Crossing-Entry-Data/keg4-3bc2 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 45 days | Oct 9, 2026, 17:30 UTC | Months Sep 2024 to Aug 2026 | Border crossings. | Inbound crossings only. Counts of trucks, not freight value or wait time. U.S. government data. |
| Imports by port U.S. Census Bureau (international trade API) https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/data/index.html | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 45 days | Oct 9, 2026, 17:31 UTC | Months Sep 2025 to Aug 2026 | Ports and trade. | General imports by value. Not truck volume, and not export data. U.S. government data. Census asks for the standard non-endorsement notice. |
| Freight Analysis Framework FAF6, top 200 truck flows Bureau of Transportation Statistics and FHWA https://www.bts.gov/faf | Historical by design read 1 day ago no shelf life, fixed vintage | Oct 8, 2026 | Benchmark year 2022, modelled. File supplied by the owner Oct 8, 2026 | Freight corridors, state-to-state lane cost. | Modelled historical annual flows by state. Not live demand, not rates, not lane or city level. U.S. government data. |
| Truck stop parking (NTAD) USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics https://services.arcgis.com/xOi1kZaI0eWDREZv/arcgis/rest/services/NTAD_Truck_Stop_Parking/FeatureServer | Historical by design read under a day ago no shelf life, fixed vintage | Oct 9, 2026, 09:55 UTC | Compiled 2019 from the Jason's Law survey | Truck parking. | Not availability, not live. Facilities may have closed, opened or changed. Work of the U.S. government, unrestricted public use. |
| Jason's Law truck parking survey tables FHWA Freight Management and Operations https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/infrastructure/truck_parking/jasons_law/truckparkingsurvey/ch3.htm | Historical by design read under a day ago no shelf life, fixed vintage | Oct 9, 2026, 09:58 UTC | Survey 2014 to 2015, published August 2015 | Truck parking. | More than ten years old. Uses vehicle-miles from that time. U.S. government work, public domain. |
| Truck size and weight enforcement (mt5m-skz3) FHWA Freight Management and Operations https://data.transportation.gov/d/mt5m-skz3 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 400 days | Oct 9, 2026, 09:55 UTC | Dataset rows updated May 13, 2025, 17:04 UTC | Road restrictions. | As reported by each state, practices differ. Counts of events and permits, not rules or fines. Public Domain U.S. Government (dataset metadata). |
| State oversize and overweight permit links FHWA Freight Management and Operations https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/sw/permit_report/index.htm | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 90 days | Oct 9, 2026, 09:55 UTC | Links as listed by FHWA on the retrieval date | Road restrictions. | State pages change. We copy no state rule, only the link. U.S. government work, public domain. |
| State internal points (TIGERweb) U.S. Census Bureau https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/State_County/MapServer/0 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 400 days | Oct 9, 2026, 09:55 UTC | Current TIGERweb state layer | State names and straight-line distances on maps and in the lane tools. | One point per state, near the geographic centre. Not a freight centre. U.S. government work, public domain. |
Prices, jobs and rules
| Dataset and source | Status | Retrieved from the source | Data vintage | Used for | Limits and licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truck driver wages by state (OEWS) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes533032.htm | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 400 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:01 UTC | OEWS estimates labelled 2025; reference month May | Trucking labor and prices and the state pages. | Mean wage paid to employee drivers. Excludes owner-operators, benefits, payroll tax and equipment. BLS data are public domain. Cite BLS. |
| Truck transportation employment and producer prices (BLS API v1) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/developers/ | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 45 days | Oct 9, 2026, 14:30 UTC | Newest month in the file: Sep 2026 (preliminary) | Trucking labor and prices. | Newest values are preliminary and revised. Price series are indexes, not dollars. BLS data are public domain. Cite BLS. |
| Truck transportation employment (BLS CES, API v2) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/ces/ | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 45 days | Oct 9, 2026, 17:30 UTC | Newest month in the file: Sep 2026 (preliminary) | Trucking labor and prices. | Preliminary and revised. Seasonally adjusted series are labelled as such. BLS data are public domain. Cite BLS. |
| Freight price and activity series (FRED) Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED), underlying BLS and BTS data https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 45 days | Oct 9, 2026, 14:44 UTC | Newest month across series: Sep 2026; the slowest series ends Jul 2026 | Freight cost indices. | Monthly values, not spot rates and not a rate for any lane. The newest month can be revised. This product uses the FRED API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED terms of use; underlying data are U.S. government works. |
| FMCSA rules and notices Office of the Federal Register https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 7 days | Oct 9, 2026, 17:30 UTC | Newest of the 25 documents in the file: published Oct 9, 2026; 5,204 FMCSA documents in the register | FMCSA rule feed. | A list of titles and abstracts. Not legal advice and not a reading of how a rule applies to you. U.S. government work, public domain. |
| 49 CFR 390.201 USDOT registration (eCFR) Electronic Code of Federal Regulations https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-390/subpart-E/section-390.201 | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 90 days | Oct 9, 2026, 11:06 UTC | Text as of Oct 1, 2026 | USDOT record explained. | Rule text excerpt only. Read the full section and ask FMCSA or counsel how it applies to you. U.S. government work, public domain. |
Routing
| Dataset and source | Status | Retrieved from the source | Data vintage | Used for | Limits and licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truck-route miles between 49 state hubs OpenRouteService (HeiGIT), map data OpenStreetMap contributors https://openrouteservice.org/ | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 120 days | Oct 9, 2026, 21:59 UTC | One matrix request, HGV profile, free-flow, hub centre to hub centre | State-to-state lane cost. | No live traffic, not door to door, not a toll-routed number. One hub city per state. Routing by OpenRouteService. Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. |
| Truck-route miles and hours for 20 popular lanes OpenRouteService and TomTom Routing API https://openrouteservice.org/ | Fresh read under a day ago shelf life 120 days | Oct 9, 2026, 19:34 UTC | Traffic delay is the reading at that moment, not an average | Lane true cost. | The two services assume different truck speeds, so their hours differ. Not a quote. Provider terms apply. Shown with the retrieval date. |
Connection check: which public services answered
On Oct 9, 2026, 16:39 UTC we probed 17 public data services from our server. 3 refused or rejected the request. We list them because a data source you cannot reach is a data source you cannot refresh.
| Service | HTTP code | Result | Role on this site |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRED | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| BLS v2 | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| EIA | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| Census porths | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| NOAA CDO | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| Regulations.gov | 200 | Reachable | Not used for any page here |
| OpenRouteService | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| TomTom | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| Visual Crossing | 200 | Reachable | Not used for any page here |
| OpenWeather | 200 | Reachable | Not used for any page here |
| USDA NASS | 401 | Refused or unauthorised | Not used for any page here |
| Socrata token | 403 | Refused or unauthorised | Not used for any page here |
| FMCSA WebKey | 403 | Refused or unauthorised | Not used for any page here |
| Socrata (no key) | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| BTS Border | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| Federal Register | 200 | Reachable | Feeds a snapshot on this site |
| WZDx registry | 200 | Reachable | Not used for any page here |
A 403 or 401 means the service refused this request from our server or this credential. It does not mean the data is bad. Rows marked "not used for any page here" are services we checked but have no data from on the site. The WZDx work-zone registry answered with code 200 in the same check, but we have not fetched any work-zone data, so it feeds nothing on the site.
How to read stale data
Two clocks, not one
Every dataset has a retrieval date (when we fetched it) and a vintage (what period the numbers describe). A bridge file fetched on Oct 9, 2026 describes bridges as of June 20, 2025, about 16 months earlier. A fresh copy of old data is still old data.
The source may be older than our fetch
The FMCSA safety measurement file we use was last updated by FMCSA on Sep 13, 2026, although we fetched it on Oct 9, 2026. Nothing we do can make it newer than the publisher's last update.
Match the clock to the decision
Weather alerts are a one-hour fact. Diesel is a one-week fact. Wages and bridges are one-year facts. A diesel price from last week is fine to plan a month. Last week's alert is useless for today's dispatch.
Historical is not stale
Freight flows for 2022 and the 2014 to 2015 parking survey will never be refreshed. They are labelled historical so no one reads them as current. Use them for shape and scale, not for today's capacity.
Preliminary numbers move
The newest month in BLS and FRED series is preliminary and can be revised. A jump in the last point of a chart is a reason to wait for the next release before acting.
When in doubt, open the source
Every row links to the publisher. If a decision costs real money, compare our number with the live source first. We show the retrieval date so you know how far behind we can be.
What we do about it
- A number reaches a page only if it traces to a file with a retrieval date. No source, no number, and the page says "no data".
- Snapshots show their retrieval time and carry a "not live" line. Historical data is labelled historical.
- The retrieval date is written into the file at fetch time by the fetch script. This page reads it from there, and so does every page that shows a snapshot.
- Aggregates only for FMCSA files. We keep counts, not carrier records, and the licence status of each dataset is shown, including where the publisher states none.
- Services that refused our connection check are listed above, not hidden.
What this board does not cover
- Your own data. Numbers you enter in a calculator stay in your browser and are not stored.
- Live feeds. We do not run live traffic, live weather or live freight rates on this site.
- Datasets we have probed but not fetched, such as the WZDx work-zone feed registry.
Browse the data itself on the open data atlas, or use it in state-to-state lane cost and pay or wait.
Questions
What does a "Stale" chip mean?
Our copy is older than twice its shelf life. The numbers are not wrong for the date they describe, but they may not describe today. Treat them as history and check the source before relying on them.
Why is a fresh dataset shown with an old vintage?
Because we fetched it recently but the publisher has not released newer data. The vintage column tells you how old the numbers inside are.
Why are some datasets "historical by design"?
They describe a fixed year, such as the 2022 Freight Analysis Framework or the 2014 to 2015 parking survey. There is nothing newer to fetch, so a refresh date would mislead.
Do you show live data anywhere?
No. Everything is a dated copy of a public file, and snapshots are labelled as snapshots.
Where do the dates on this page come from?
From the files themselves: the retrieval time the fetch script wrote, the publisher's own update stamp where it provides one, and the newest period inside the data. Where a file has no such field, the page says so.
Can I use this data myself?
Most sources are U.S. government works. Licence notes are in the table. The FMCSA datasets state no licence in their metadata, and mass commercial reuse of them is under legal review on our side, so we publish aggregates and public identifiers only.
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