R+L Carriers Fuel Surcharge API - NexusFeed

R+L Carriers (SCAC: RLCA) publishes a weekly fuel surcharge table with the DOE #2 diesel price that triggered each rate. The upstream tariff page consistently exposes the past 52 weeks. NexusFeed parses the page in headless Chromium and returns rates newest-first.

Carrier overview

Field	Value
SCAC code	RLCA
Full name	R+L Carriers
Headquarters	Wilmington, OH
Coverage	National
DOE diesel price	Yes
Historical weeks available	52 weeks
Extraction method	`playwright_dom`
Cache TTL	7 days

Example request

curl "https://api.nexusfeed.dev/v1/ltl/fuel-surcharge?carriers=RLC&weeks=8" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Example response

{
  "carrier": "RLC",
  "weeks": [
    {"effective_date": "2026-04-07", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 39.7, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.812}
  ],
  "_verifiability": {
    "source_timestamp": "2026-04-10T14:22:11Z",
    "extraction_confidence": 1.0,
    "raw_data_evidence_url": "https://www2.rlcarriers.com/freight/shipping-tools/fuel-surcharge",
    "extraction_method": "playwright_dom",
    "data_freshness_ttl_seconds": 604800
  }
}

Use cases

Invoice audit against R+L’s weekly surcharge schedule.
52-week rolling trend analysis for RFP assembly.
Cross-carrier comparison for eastern and midwestern LTL lanes.