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Old Dominion Freight Line (SCAC: ODFL) publishes its fuel surcharge schedule on a hidden JSON endpoint used by the carrier’s own web frontend. NexusFeed calls that endpoint directly and returns the current week’s rate, the DOE diesel price that triggered it, and up to 26 weeks of history. When the primary API path fails or returns low confidence, a Playwright fallback automatically parses ODFL’s public tariff table instead.

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Carrier overview

FieldValue
SCAC codeODFL
Full nameOld Dominion Freight Line
HeadquartersThomasville, NC
CoverageNational
DOE diesel priceYes
Historical weeks availableFull history (bounded by weeks parameter, max 26)
Primary extraction methodapi_mirror
Fallback extraction methodplaywright_dom
Cache TTL7 days

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Why it’s reliable

ODFL’s primary path hits api.odfl.com/tools/fuel-history/v1.0/fuel-history.list, which returns a clean JSON array sorted newest-first. No authentication is required. When that endpoint is healthy, extraction_confidence returns 1.0 and extraction_method is api_mirror. If the API returns a non-2xx, a parse error, or a confidence below 1.0, the router automatically falls back to ODFL’s public tariff page (www.odfl.com/us/en/tools/fuel-surcharge-schedule.html) and parses the HTML table. The fallback still returns clean data but reports extraction_method: playwright_dom so you know which path ran.

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Example request

curl "https://api.nexusfeed.dev/v1/ltl/fuel-surcharge?carriers=ODFL&weeks=4" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

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Example response

{
  "carrier": "ODFL",
  "weeks": [
    {"effective_date": "2026-04-07", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 42.3, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.812},
    {"effective_date": "2026-03-31", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 41.9, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.798},
    {"effective_date": "2026-03-24", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 41.7, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.791},
    {"effective_date": "2026-03-17", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 41.4, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.782}
  ],
  "_verifiability": {
    "source_timestamp": "2026-04-10T14:22:11Z",
    "extraction_confidence": 1.0,
    "raw_data_evidence_url": "https://api.odfl.com/tools/fuel-history/v1.0/fuel-history.list",
    "extraction_method": "api_mirror",
    "data_freshness_ttl_seconds": 604800
  }
}

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Use cases

  • Invoice audit: match your ODFL LTL freight invoices against the week’s published rate to catch billing errors.
  • Quote assembly: include an accurate fuel surcharge line item when quoting shipments moving on ODFL.
  • Trend analysis: pull 12-26 weeks of history to correlate fuel surcharges with DOE diesel movements.
  • Carrier comparison: request ODFL alongside Saia, Estes, and XPO to compare week-over-week.

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Compare with other carriers

CarrierDOE priceHistoryMethod
ODFLYesFullAPI mirror + fallback
SaiaYesFullPlaywright DOM
EstesYes5+ yearsPlaywright DOM
ABFNoFullPassthrough / ScraperAPI
R+LYes52 weeksPlaywright DOM
Full list on the LTL Fuel Surcharge product page.