Guess the diesel price behind the surcharge
We show a real UPS Ground fuel surcharge from a past week. Guess the EIA diesel price that produced it, then reveal the answer and the table bracket.
Results
- Hint: under UPS’s table, each 0.25 percentage points is a $0.09 step in diesel.
How this is calculated
Rounds use weeks where UPS published a Ground rate and the EIA diesel price is known.
Rates shown as defaults come from carrier publications or each carrier’s published table applied to the EIA price; see the methodology. Estimates and examples are labeled. Results are illustrative and do not represent any carrier’s reported financial results.
Questions
How does diesel turn into a fuel surcharge?
Each carrier maps the weekly EIA price to a percentage in a published step table.
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