The free JAX drayage rate index.
One public number for what drayage actually costs out of Jacksonville — built on settled rates, published with its sample counts, and free for anyone to read.
Status, stated plainly
The methodology is published. The first numbers are not. We publish the rules before the first edition so anyone can judge the numbers when they arrive. A lane prints only when it clears every rule below — no exceptions, no estimates dressed up as data.
The rules
How every number is built
What counts
- Agreed, transacted rates only. Settled drayage moves — what was actually paid. Postings, quotes, tariffs and estimates are never included.
- All-in linehaul. Each observation is the full door-to-door drayage charge for the lane, fuel included where it was part of the settlement.
- 40′ container drayage, Port of Jacksonville. One port, one equipment type to start. Scope grows only when the data supports it.
What must be true before a lane prints
- At least 5 independent contributors on the lane — no single company's book can define a market.
- No contributor above 25% of the lane's observations — one big player can't move the number.
- At least 7 observations in the publication window.
- Sample counts published with every number. You see the n, not just the average.
Thin lanes
When a lane doesn't print
A lane that doesn't clear the floors does not appear — it is never filled in with a guess, a model estimate, or a nearby lane's number wearing a disguise. Instead, thin lanes roll up: daily windows widen to weekly, and narrow corridors aggregate to the port region, until the floors are met. A missing lane is a trust signal, not a gap.
Cadence
Monthly, on a schedule
The index publishes monthly, on a fixed schedule, from settled moves in the prior window. No contributor is ever identified — every number is aggregated and anonymised. The index describes what happened; it never tells anyone what to charge. Historical context, not price instructions.
For carriers
Share data, get the data
The index runs on a simple exchange: carriers contribute anonymised recent drayage invoices — company names stripped before anything is stored — and contributors get free lane-level lookups in return. No one is named, no one's book is exposed, and the floors above mean no single contributor can ever be reverse-engineered out of a number.
Interested in contributing? Write to ops@kpandeyllc.com with "rate index" in the subject and we'll explain exactly what we collect and what we strip.
Why this way
Credibility is the product
Every serious freight benchmark works this way — settled transactions, contributor minimums, published sample counts, suppressed thin lanes — because a rate index nobody trusts is worse than no index at all. We'd rather print three lanes with real data than thirty lanes with guesses.