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Freight rate benchmarks (truckload, LTL, rail, intermodal, barge), market outlooks, FMCSA checks.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.freightfa.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http freightfa https://mcp.freightfa.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
get_freight_brief — Start here for any general freight market question. FreightFA's daily freight brief in one call, with no inputs: today's U.S. national truckestimate_truckload_rate — Estimate a full-truckload freight rate for a lane using FreightFA's rate engine. Returns a directional benchmark for planning. Each call couestimate_ltl_rate — Estimate a less-than-truckload rate using FreightFA's CzarLite-basis tariff calculator. Returns a directional benchmark for planning. Each cestimate_rail_rate — Estimate a Class I carload rail freight rate for a commodity, distance, and weight. Pass origin and destination to check for active freight estimate_intermodal_rate — Estimate a door-to-door domestic intermodal (rail + truck) rate between two U.S. places: drayage to the nearest Class I ramp, the rail line-estimate_barge_rate — Estimate an inland waterway barge freight rate for a bulk commodity, origin, destination, distance, and weight, from USDA's weekly downboundrecommend_mode — Rank the freight modes (dry van, reefer, flatbed, intermodal, rail, barge, dump truck) for a shipment between two U.S. places, with the reasask_freight_analyst — Ask FreightFA's AI freight analyst a question in plain language: lane rates, mode choice, capacity, fuel, carrier vetting, market news, or dget_market_snapshot — Today's U.S. national truckload rates per mile for dry van, reefer, and flatbed (FreightFA all-in rate including fuel), FreightFA's live-quoget_market_outlook — FreightFA's forecast for next week's U.S. national spot rate per mile (all-in including fuel) for dry van, reefer, or flatbed: the current wget_rail_market_outlook — How U.S. rail carload prices are moving: the change in Class I railroads' average revenue per carload versus a year earlier, from their SEC get_freight_index_outlook — Latest reading and next-period outlook for a global freight index: drewry_wci (Drewry World Container Index, $/40ft container), baltic_dry_iget_barge_outlook — USDA weekly downbound grain barge rates for the river corridor between two Mississippi, Illinois, or Ohio River places, with next week's outlookup_carrier — Vet a U.S. motor carrier from FMCSA SAFER data: operating authority, safety rating, insurance on file, driver and vehicle out-of-service ratfind_intermodal_hubs — Look up U.S. intermodal rail hubs by city or state: which Class I railroads serve the metro, the named ramps to ask a carrier about, and notexplain_freight_term — Plain-English definition of a freight market index, ratio, or charge from the FreightFA glossary: OTRI, OTVI, load-to-truck ratio, NTI, Cassget_freight_news — FreightFA's newest freight news: FreightFA Pulse market stories and updates (truck, rail, ocean, industry), articles from The FreightFA Briecalculate_margin — Margin on a load from the buy rate (carrier cost) and sell rate (what the shipper pays): margin in dollars and percent of sell, the per-milecheck_freight_bill — Compare what a shipper was billed (or quoted) for one truckload or LTL load with today's market price for the same lane. Use it when the usedraft_pushback_email — Draft an email to a broker or carrier pushing back on a truckload quote, using the market benchmark for the lane and this week's market direcreate_rfp — Create a draft freight RFP in the user's FreightFA account with up to 50 lanes, and benchmark each lane against the market. Returns the RFP list_rfps — List the signed-in user's RFP documents, newest first, with lane counts.get_rfp — Fetch one of the signed-in user's RFP documents, including its lanes.estimate_network_cost — Price a supply chain of up to 10 legs (factory to port to warehouse to store, domestic or international) and total it, with each leg's mode,list_rate_alerts — List the signed-in user's lane rate alerts.create_rate_alert — Create a lane rate alert for the signed-in user. Notifies them when the benchmark crosses the threshold.list_recent_searches — List the signed-in user's recent freight rate searches and the lanes they priced (website, chat and assistant), newest first, each with its Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.