The National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) designed a freight classification system for all types of goods. It was established as a way to standardize thecost of freighttransport so that there would be a transparent, if somewhat complicated, classification code for all products. All com...
Freight Class represents a category of items, while NMFC Codes (and further broken-down subcodes) represent a specific commodity within each freight class. Here’s what that looks like: The NMFC is organized as a list of NMFC Commodity numbers with a description of the commodities under it....
and perishability. Commodities are grouped into one of 18 freight classes by using a range of numbers from 50 to 500. The class that a commodity is grouped into is based on an evaluation of four transportation characteristics: density, stowability, handling, and liability. Together, these charac...