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# Estes Express Fuel Surcharge API

> Estes Express Lines LTL fuel surcharge rates with DOE diesel price and up to five years of history.

Estes Express Lines (SCAC: **EXLA**) publishes a long historical fuel surcharge table on its public tariff page. NexusFeed parses the table in headless Chromium and returns the rates newest-first. Estes is one of the deeper historical sources in the API — the upstream table routinely exposes five or more years of weekly data.

## Carrier overview

| Field                          | Value                                                                |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **SCAC code**                  | EXLA                                                                 |
| **Full name**                  | Estes Express Lines                                                  |
| **Headquarters**               | Richmond, VA                                                         |
| **Coverage**                   | National                                                             |
| **DOE diesel price**           | Yes                                                                  |
| **Historical weeks available** | 5+ years (API caps at 26 weeks per request; paginate for older data) |
| **Extraction method**          | `playwright_dom`                                                     |
| **Cache TTL**                  | 7 days                                                               |

## Example request

```bash theme={null}
curl "https://api.nexusfeed.dev/v1/ltl/fuel-surcharge?carriers=ESTES&weeks=12" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
```

## Example response

```json theme={null}
{
  "carrier": "ESTES",
  "weeks": [
    {"effective_date": "2026-04-07", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 41.5, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.812}
  ],
  "_verifiability": {
    "source_timestamp": "2026-04-10T14:22:11Z",
    "extraction_confidence": 1.0,
    "raw_data_evidence_url": "https://www.estes-express.com/resources/fuel-surcharges",
    "extraction_method": "playwright_dom",
    "data_freshness_ttl_seconds": 604800
  }
}
```

## Use cases

* Long-horizon trend analysis (12-26 weeks) for RFP preparation.
* Auditing Estes LTL invoices against the posted tariff schedule.
* Pairing Estes rates with [ODFL](/carriers/odfl) and [Saia](/carriers/saia) for cost benchmarking on the southeastern lanes.