NMFTA

NMFTA (the National Motor Freight Traffic Association) is the nonprofit membership body that has set the standards for North American freight since 1956, and through its Digital Standards Development Council it is now publishing that same industry agreement as open OpenAPI contracts. Its councils — Digital LTL and Digital FTL — turn the paper artifacts of trucking into machine-readable APIs: the bill of lading, the rate quote, the invoice and supporting documents, in-transit visibility, appointment scheduling, and preliminary freight charges. 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.