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Pull the last 6 months of history."},{"title":"Supply chain cost pressure monitoring","prompt":"I want to track freight cost trends for our supply chain planning — can you fetch the Cass Freight expenditures and implied cost per shipment for the past 12 months and tell me how much costs have increased year over year?"},{"title":"Trucking sector investment research","prompt":"I'm analyzing the trucking sector for an investment thesis — pull me 24 months of ATA truck tonnage and Cass Freight shipment index data so I can see the longer-term demand and capacity cycle."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON object containing: latest index values for Cass Freight Index shipments, Cass Freight Index expenditures, implied freight cost per shipment (expenditures/shipments), and ATA truck tonnage — each with their most recent month value, month-over-month percent change, and year-over-year percent change. Also includes historical time series arrays for each indicator covering the requested number of months, a source attribution to FRED, a timestamp, and a plain-English interpretation of what the combined signals suggest about capacity conditions.","failureModes":["FRED data lag: ATA tonnage typically lags 1–2 months behind Cass data, so the latest months for different series may differ","Invalid months parameter (outside 1–24 range) may return an error or default behavior","Data may be temporarily unavailable if FRED upstream is down","Monthly granularity only — no weekly, daily, or lane-level resolution","National aggregate data only — cannot provide regional or corridor-level breakdowns"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need national-level, macro US truck freight demand and capacity proxy indicators derived from authoritative FRED/Cass/ATA sources, with historical trend context and MoM/YoY changes pre-calculated. 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