AFS Logistics

Invoice-level freight audit and payment transaction data underlying the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index: line-by-line carrier settlement records for Truckload, Less-than-Truckload and Parcel covering linehaul cost per shipment and per mile, miles per shipment, weight brackets, lane and distance band, fuel and demand and peak-period accessorials, billed-versus-paid amounts, and dispute/error correction outcomes, aggregated from $39B of annual transportation spend across 1,800+ shipper clients, plus the derived quarterly rate indices and forecasts.

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Coverage

Universe, instruments and categories.

Industry: TruckingAir Freight & Services
Instruments: equities
Categories: Alternative

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular - structured invoice and settlement transaction records in a proprietary audit platform (multimodal at the source: scanned carrier invoices plus parsed line-item fields), with derived index series published as quarterly PDF reports
Volume: est. 20-40M freight settlement and invoice line records per year (basis: $39B annual transportation spend in its systems divided by a blended $1,000-2,000 per settled truckload, LTL and parcel line), with modelled history for Truckload, LTL and Parcel since 2018
Users: 1,800+ shipper clients (stated in the report as the source population of the freight data, all sizes and industries)
History: 42 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active - the index is still being published (a Q3 2025 edition exists alongside this Q4 2024 one), the firm holds an in-house data science and analyst team, and it is cited in Gartner market guides and Inc. 5000 listings
Launched: ~1982 for the underlying audit operation (basis: the report states 42 years of experience across all transportation modes as of the 2024 edition); the branded TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index product itself is far newer
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
Licence: not stated

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