# NMFTA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nmfta/  
**Website:** https://nmfta.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

The National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) is the nonprofit membership body that has set the standards for North American freight since 1956, and through its Digital Standards Development Council (DSDC) it publishes that industry agreement as open OpenAPI contracts. Two councils sit under the DSDC — the Digital LTL Council, founded November 2020, and the Digital FTL Council, which absorbed the Scheduling Standards Consortium — and between them they turn the paper artifacts of trucking into machine-readable APIs: the electronic bill of lading, the rate quote, the invoice and supporting documents, in-transit visibility, appointment scheduling, book and tender, and preliminary freight charges. For most of NMFTA's history its standards were classification and coding — the NMFC freight classification, ClassIT+, SCAC carrier codes, SPLC location codes — and the DSDC is the same institution doing the same job for the API layer. It is one of the clearest examples of an old, mandate-free trade association choosing specifications-as-code over another PDF behind a membership wall, and the gap between what its website advertises as released and what its public repositories actually contain is the most interesting thing about it.

## Kin Score — 20.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 47.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 17.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (6)

- **DSDC LTL eBOL API** — The Digital LTL Council's electronic bill of lading standard, version 2.1.0 — the council's first and most adopted contract. This is the standard's own specification, not any ca...
- **DSDC LTL Preliminary Freight Charges API** — Gives shippers, carriers and 3PLs visibility into freight charges as they evolve — reclassifications, reweighs and accessorial changes mid-shipment rather than weeks later on th...
- **DSDC FTL eBOL API** — The Digital FTL Council's electronic bill of lading standard. Published in the public repository as 1.0.0-public-preview while the DSDC website advertises 1.1.0 as released.
- **DSDC FTL Rate/Quote API** — Full truckload rate and quote exchange between shippers, carriers and intermediaries. Published as 1.0.0-public-preview.
- **DSDC FTL Invoice and Documents API** — Invoicing and supporting document exchange for full truckload movements. Published as 1.0.0-public-preview.
- **DSDC FTL In-Transit Visibility API** — Shipment status and location events while a full truckload movement is under way. Published as 1.0.0-public-preview; the LTL council's equivalent is still in development.

## Tags

API Standards, DSDC, Digital FTL Council, Digital LTL Council, Freight, Full Truckload, LTL, Less-Than-Truckload, Logistics, NMFTA, OpenAPI, Standards, Standards Body, Supply Chain, Transportation, Trucking

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/nmfta/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.