Rules
- Three sources minimum. With fewer, we say “we do not have enough data for this lane yet.”
- Like with like. Rates with and without surcharges are never mixed. 20-foot and 40-foot are never converted into each other.
- Outliers out. A sheet far from all others does not enter the median.
- No public index for your quote. Public index terms do not allow benchmarking a quote, so indices are used only to describe the overall market trend, with the source named.
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