From commodity to density
Many listings that carried a fixed class now classify by density instead. The same product can rate differently from one shipment to the next depending on how it is packed.
Free check · Up to 10 item numbers
Are you still quoting against an item that no longer exists?
Docket 2025-1 consolidated roughly 2,000 NMFC listings. If your system still pulls a class from a commodity table nobody has updated since, the class on your bill of lading may be one a carrier stopped recognizing. You find out when the rebill arrives.
What we send back
- Which of your item numbers are still current
- Which were consolidated, and what they became
- Which now classify by density instead of a fixed class
- Where a density-based class would differ from what you quote today
This is free and it stays free. A person on our team does the lookup and replies within one business day. We do not put you on a list for it.
Where to find your item numbers
They appear on your bill of lading, usually labelled NMFC or Item. They look like a number with an optional sub, for example 156600 sub 3. If your TMS fills the class in automatically, the item number is stored in the commodity or product record behind it.
If you cannot find them, send us a recent bill of lading instead and we will pull them off it.
Send us your item numbers
Up to 10. We reply within one business day.
Why item numbers moved in the first place
The 2025 restructure was not a renumbering exercise. It changed how a large share of general freight gets classified.
Listings consolidated
Roughly 2,000 listings were folded into broader ones. A number that resolved cleanly before may now point somewhere else or nowhere at all.
Two new subprovisions
Subs 12 and 13 added class 55 and class 50 for genuinely dense freight. If your table stops at the old floor, you may be over-classifying and overpaying.
Check the class while you are here.
The calculator gives you the density class on a pallet in about ten seconds, with no email required.