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Freight class 125What freight class 125 means.
Class 125 is what density-based freight weighing 6 to 8 pounds per cubic foot classifies as. It is subprovision 5 of the thirteen-subprovision density scale.
What lands here
Boxed household goods and small furniture components. Moderately bulky for what they weigh.
That is an example, not a rule. Class 125 is not a kind of product — it is a density. The same item can be class 125 packed one way and something else packed another, which is why no honest list of “class 125 commodities” exists.
What that looks like on a pallet
A standard 48 by 40 pallet stacked to 48 inches is 53.3 cubic feet. To classify as class 125, a shipment on that pallet needs to weigh between 320 and 426 lb.
Take weight off and it climbs. Under 6 PCF the same pallet is class 175.
Add weight and it falls. Over 8 PCF it becomes class 100.
Which is the point: a few hundred pounds, or a few inches of stack height, moves freight between classes. Run your own numbers.
Whether this changed in July 2025
Docket 2025-1 moved a great deal of freight onto this density scale that had previously carried a fixed class. If you ship on an item number that moved, the class you have always used may not be the one a carrier applies now.
Most class charts online predate that change and still list commodities against fixed classes. What changed in Docket 2025-1.
Not sure the class you ship on is still right?
Send us up to 10 of the NMFC item numbers you use. We will tell you which are current, which moved in July 2025, and which look wrong for what you actually ship.