# What will the BTS Transportation Services Index freight component read for May 2026?

**URL:** https://www.rigload.com/markets/bts-tsi-freight-may-2026  
**Type:** Numeric forecast  
**Status:** active  
**Deadline:** 2026-07-16  
**Category:** indices  
**Current consensus:** 141.30  
**Forecasts:** 9

## Description

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics publishes the Transportation Services Index each month, with a freight-only component that moves on trucking, rail carload, inland waterway, pipeline and air cargo activity. It is a natural companion to the ATA Truck Tonnage Index already on Rig Load and pulls from a different query set on search. January 2026 fell 0.6% from December and 0.3% year over year, putting recent values in the mid-130s on the 2000 = 100 base. May is the last reading before the summer industrial push and should capture whether the tariff-driven front-loading is still pulling volumes forward.

## Resolution criteria

Resolves to the seasonally adjusted BTS Transportation Services Index freight component value for May 2026 as published in the BTS monthly TSI release. Round to one decimal place. Source: [BTS Transportation Services Index](https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Transportation-as-an-Economic-Indicator/9czv-tjte)

## Source links

- [BTS Transportation Services Index](https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Transportation-as-an-Economic-Indicator/9czv-tjte)

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