LTL freight cost estimator

Three picks, no typing. The answer always names the population it came from and how many quotes are behind it.

No rate formula and no fitted curve: the tool reads percentiles straight off the archived quotes. For your picks it takes the matching cell of the table, the 25th percentile, the median, and the 75th percentile of the buyer-side totals in it.

A cell only ships when at least 30 quotes sit in it. Where a class-and-distance pairing is thinner than that, the tool widens to the class across all distances and says so in the answer line. It never averages two cells together and never invents the missing one.

The full anatomy of a quote, what the carrier charges, what the fuel surcharge does, and where the platform markup lands, is in the data study what 23,105 real freight quotes show, computed from the same archive.

• Liftgate and residential delivery. Every archived quote is a residential delivery with a liftgate truck, so both fees are inside every figure: a median of $100.00 combined across the LTL archive, most commonly $50.00 plus $50.00. A dock-high commercial delivery would price lower.
• Fuel.The carrier’s fuel surcharge is inside the total where the lane charges one. It is not universal: 2,286 of the 16,107 LTL quotes carry no fuel surcharge at all, on seller-negotiated flat-rate lanes.
• The platform markup.These are buyer-side totals: the carrier’s price plus B-Stock’s percentage on top, which varies by lane and seller account. What you would have paid at checkout is what is measured.

Every quote in the archive is a delivery to one saved address: a residential, liftgate delivery in the Boise, Idaho metro. The distance bands are real lane miles, but the archive has no destination variety to learn from, so treat the bands as the shape of freight pricing, not a rate for your exact lane.

Weight and pallet count are never exposed by the source, and they move the price as much as distance does. That is why one cell still spans a wide middle half, and why the tool shows the range instead of picking a number. The quotes also come from one April-to-August window in 2026: fuel tiers drift with diesel prices, and seasonal carrier capacity is not visible here.

Finally, accessorials beyond liftgate and residential, such as appointment fees, limited access sites, or inside delivery, are not in these figures. Before you bid, get the real quote with your lot’s specs; the pallet shipping costs guide walks the four-step method, and the pallet profit calculator folds the freight line into your landed cost per unit once you have it.