Saia Fuel Surcharge API

Saia LTL Freight (SCAC: SAIA) publishes its fuel surcharge schedule as a plain HTML table on saia.com/tools-and-resources/fuel-surcharges. The table includes the effective date, the DOE #2 diesel price, the LTL fuel surcharge percentage, and a truckload rate. NexusFeed parses the table in headless Chromium and normalizes the dates to ISO 8601.

Carrier overview

Field	Value
SCAC code	SAIA
Full name	Saia LTL Freight
Headquarters	Johns Creek, GA
Coverage	National
DOE diesel price	Yes
Historical weeks available	Full history published on the tariff page
Extraction method	`playwright_dom`
Cache TTL	7 days

Why the URL matters

Saia’s fuel surcharge page is at the plural path /tools-and-resources/fuel-surcharges — the singular form redirects to the carrier’s homepage. A surprising number of scrapers target the wrong URL and get the home page HTML back, producing silent failures. NexusFeed uses the plural path and parses the well-formed table directly.

Example request

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

import httpx

resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.nexusfeed.dev/v1/ltl/fuel-surcharge",
    params={"carriers": "SAIA", "weeks": 4},
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY"},
)
data = resp.json()
print("Current Saia LTL fuel surcharge:", data["weeks"][0]["fuel_surcharge_pct"], "%")

Example response

{
  "carrier": "SAIA",
  "weeks": [
    {"effective_date": "2026-04-07", "fuel_surcharge_pct": 40.1, "doe_diesel_price_usd": 3.812}
  ],
  "_verifiability": {
    "source_timestamp": "2026-04-10T14:22:11Z",
    "extraction_confidence": 1.0,
    "raw_data_evidence_url": "https://www.saia.com/tools-and-resources/fuel-surcharges",
    "extraction_method": "playwright_dom",
    "data_freshness_ttl_seconds": 604800
  }
}

Use cases

Audit Saia LTL invoices against the published weekly rate.
Compare Saia’s fuel surcharge to ODFL, Estes, and XPO when picking a carrier for a given shipment.
Track week-over-week trends alongside DOE #2 diesel prices for procurement planning.

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Saia Fuel Surcharge API

Carrier overview

Why the URL matters

Example request

Example response

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​Carrier overview

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Carrier overview

Why the URL matters

Example request

Example response

Use cases