ArcBest
ArcBest is a multibillion-dollar freight and logistics provider operating ABF Freight (LTL), Panther Premium Logistics (expedite), MoLo (truckload brokerage) and U-Pack (moving), with managed transportation, warehousing and international forwarding alongside. Its integration surface is published on arcb.com in two forms: REST APIs covering rate quote, volume quote, tracking, document retrieval, transit times, pickup request and Bill of Lading, whose documentation sits behind a customer login; and ANSI X12 EDI, where ArcBest publishes downloadable 204, 210 and 214 mapping specifications openly. The one API surface documented publicly is ArcBest Expedite - a Customer API and a third-party TMS API, each shipped as a downloadable Swagger-Codegen reference with worked JSON examples, live at api.arcb.com with a test environment at test.api.arcb.com.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles ArcBest the way a machine reads it — 75 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — ArcBest scores 43.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 36/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile ArcBest
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ArcBest. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 6
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
ArcBest Pickups API
Pickup scheduling and management
ArcBest Rates API
Freight rate quote services
ArcBest Shipments API
Shipment booking and management
ArcBest Tracking API
Shipment tracking and visibility
ArcBest Expedite Customer API
Quote, book and track ArcBest Expedite (Panther Premium Logistics) time-critical freight directly from a shipper's own application. Client-credential authorize call returns a be...
ArcBest Expedite Third Party TMS API
The integration surface ArcBest publishes for transportation management systems and freight-visibility platforms. HTTP Basic authenticated; quote, book, poll booking status, ret...
Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONArcBest Pickups API
OPEN COLLECTIONArcBest Pickups Rates API
OPEN COLLECTIONArcBest Pickups Shipments API
OPEN COLLECTIONArcBest Pickups Tracking API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
ArcBest MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Arcbest Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Arcbest Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
LTL Rate Quotes
Real-time less-than-truckload freight rate quotes with transit time estimates.
Shipment Booking
API-based shipment booking and scheduling for LTL and truckload freight.
Shipment Tracking
Real-time tracking of freight shipments with status updates and delivery notifications.
BOL Generation
Electronic Bill of Lading generation and management through API integration.
Pickup Scheduling
Automated pickup scheduling and confirmation for outbound freight.
Supply Chain Visibility
End-to-end supply chain visibility across ArcBest freight and logistics services.
Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Arcbest Track And Trace Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Arcbest Api Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
ArcBest API Rules
SPECTRALArcBest API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 14
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Address
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAFreightItem
JSON SCHEMAPickupConfirmation
JSON SCHEMAPickupRequest
JSON SCHEMARateRequest
JSON SCHEMARateResponse
JSON SCHEMAShipmentList
JSON SCHEMAShipmentRequest
JSON SCHEMAShipment
JSON SCHEMATrackingEvent
JSON SCHEMATrackingStatus
JSON SCHEMAArcbest Expedite Quote Request Model
JSON SCHEMAArcbest Expedite Quote Response Model
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JSON Structure 12
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Arcbest Api Address Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Freight Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Pickup Confirmation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Pickup Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Rate Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Rate Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Shipment List Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Shipment Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Shipment Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Tracking Event Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArcbest Api Tracking Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 12 ·
Examples 12
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Arcbest Api Address Example
EXAMPLEArcbest Api Shipment Example
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
E-Commerce Shipping
Integrate ArcBest freight rates and booking into e-commerce platforms for automated shipping.
ERP Integration
Connect ArcBest freight services to ERP systems for automated freight procurement and accounting.
TMS Integration
Integrate with Transportation Management Systems for multi-carrier freight optimization.
Warehouse Management
Connect ArcBest pickup scheduling with warehouse management systems for outbound logistics automation.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
SAP
Integration with SAP ERP for freight cost allocation and logistics management.
Oracle
Connect to Oracle ERP and WMS systems for automated freight operations.
Salesforce
Integrate shipment tracking and freight data with Salesforce CRM.
ShipStation
Multi-carrier shipping management platform integration.
Shopify
E-commerce platform integration for LTL freight rate display and booking.
Resources
Every other property we hold for ArcBest — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 6
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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