Saia LTL Freight Fuel Surcharge

Pulled from Saia LTL Freight's published schedule, retrieved July 17, 2026. Source: https://www.saia.com/tools-and-resources/fuel-surcharges. Carrier names are used for identification only; OilPriceAPI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Saia LTL Freight.

DOE Diesel Price Band — How Saia's Surcharge Is Set

Saia LTL Freight publishes a schedule mapping ranges of the weekly DOE/EIA national average on-highway diesel price to a fuel surcharge percentage. When the EIA publishes a new diesel price (every Tuesday), the surcharge moves to the band containing that price.

The trigger variable is public: see the current diesel prices by state or pull the weekly index from the Diesel Price API.

Get the Saia Fuel Surcharge via API

# Latest published Saia surcharge
curl "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/fuel-surcharge/saia/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY"

# Python
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/fuel-surcharge/saia/latest",
    headers={"Authorization": "Token YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = resp.json()["data"]
print(data["surcharge_percent"], data["effective_date"])

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