TRUE LANES · VERIFIED LANE RATES
How True Lanes verifies lane rates
Every typical rate on True Lanes is built from accepted rate confirmations that members uploaded, nothing else: no surveys, no estimates, no scraped load boards. This page is the complete set of rules that decide when a number is shown and what it means.
What counts as a verified load
A verified load is one rate confirmation: the broker's signed agreement for a single load, with the origin, destination, equipment, delivery date, miles and the total paid. A member uploads the PDF and picks the origin market. Before it counts, the document is screened: the file is checked for safety, the arithmetic between total, miles and rate per mile has to hold, the dates have to be real, and the carrier and broker are checked against their authority records. A document that fails any check is held or excluded, and nobody's rate moves because of it.
Members on paid plans see the findings for their own uploads. Other members never see anyone's document, broker or exact load.
When a market publishes a rate
These thresholds are enforced in code (policy proposal-2026-09), and the same values appear on every market page and in the app.
- Minimum sample8 loadsA market publishes a typical rate only once at least 8 different accepted loads qualify. Duplicates of the same load never count twice.
- Independent sources4 carriersThose loads must come from at least 4 independent carriers, so a rate is never one fleet's experience.
- Carrier cap25%No single carrier can supply more than 25% of the loads behind a rate.
- Broker cap50%No single broker can supply more than 50% of them, so one broker's pricing cannot define a lane.
- Publishing lag7 daysA load counts only after it has been delivered for at least 7 days. Nothing on True Lanes reveals what a truck is hauling right now.
- Level of detailMarket or widerRates are published for a freight market (about 75 miles around a city), a state or a region, never for a single facility, shipper or lane pair with too few loads.
What you see once a market qualifies
The typical rate is the median rate per mile of the qualifying loads, shown with the 25th and 75th percentile so you can see the spread, for dry van, reefer and flatbed separately, over the last 7, 15 or 30 days. Rates refresh as new loads pass the lag, and a market drops back to neutral if its loads age out or a cap is exceeded.
What never shows
- Any single load, even to the member who uploaded it, in the public numbers.
- A rate for a facility, a shipper or a lane with too few loads.
- An estimate, a forecast or a filled-in number for a market with no evidence.
- Who uploaded what. A load appears in a chat room only as a card the uploader chose to share.
History, not advice
A typical rate is what qualifying lanes paid in the past. It is context for your own negotiation, not a recommendation and not a price anyone should expect or demand. Every member sets their own rates, and messages that try to coordinate pricing are held for review under the Terms of Agreement.
Questions
How many loads does a market need before a rate shows?
At least 8 accepted loads from at least 4 independent carriers, each delivered at least 7 days earlier. Until then the market stays neutral and shows no number.
Can one carrier or one broker move the typical rate?
No. A single carrier can supply at most 25% of the loads behind a published rate and a single broker at most 50%. If either share is exceeded, the rate is not published.
Why does my market show no rate?
Because not enough verified loads have been delivered there yet, or because the loads that exist are too concentrated in one carrier or broker. True Lanes never fills the gap with an estimate; a neutral market means there is no evidence to show.
Changes to these rules
- 2026-10-17: page published with policy
proposal-2026-09. Any change to a threshold gets a new policy version, a note here and a new date on this page.
See the rules applied to a place: all 96 freight markets, or check a load with the load profit calculator.