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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.

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Carrier overview

FieldValue
SCAC codeSAIA
Full nameSaia LTL Freight
HeadquartersJohns Creek, GA
CoverageNational
DOE diesel priceYes
Historical weeks availableFull history published on the tariff page
Extraction methodplaywright_dom
Cache TTL7 days

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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.

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Example request

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

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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
  }
}

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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.