Sources & licences
What this page is. Every data source RateAnchor shows, with the attribution and licence lines each source asks for, the trademarks the App names, and the open-source notices for the iPhone and Android apps. It is the same list the App shows in Settings › About & licenses › Sources & licenses. Agency and company names identify sources only; none sponsors or endorses RateAnchor.
1. Data the App shows, and where it comes from
| What you see | Source | Terms and attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Broker and carrier records (Broker Shield) | FMCSA, U.S. Department of Transportation (FMCSA's registry and DOT open data: authority history, BOC-3 agents, insurance filings) | Public federal data. RateAnchor is not affiliated with FMCSA. |
| Inspections and the public safety record (My Safety) | FMCSA | Public federal data. SMS results are not a safety rating; property-carrier percentiles are not shown. |
| Diesel prices | U.S. Energy Information Administration (weekly) | Public federal data |
| Weather on a lane | National Weather Service, checked live for each lane | Public federal data |
| Disaster declarations on a lane | FEMA OpenFEMA API | The OpenFEMA notice in Section 2 |
| Produce truck rates | USDA truck-rate reports | Public federal data |
| Freight Pulse: Truckload pricing (PPI) and Drivers employed | Bureau of Labor Statistics | Public federal data, retrieved through the FRED® API |
| Freight Pulse: Freight TSI (BTS) | Bureau of Transportation Statistics | Public federal data, retrieved through the FRED® API |
| Freight Pulse: Heavy truck sales | Bureau of Economic Analysis | Public federal data, retrieved through the FRED® API |
| VIN decoding | NHTSA vPIC | Public federal data |
| Cities | U.S. Census Bureau | Public federal data |
| ZIP codes | GeoNames | GeoNames data — CC BY 4.0; modified by MEL: converted to a ZIP lookup |
| Truck routing distances | HERE | © HERE |
| Domain registration dates (rate-con check) | Public RDAP registries | Public registration data |
| Operating-cost benchmarks | ATRI (American Transportation Research Institute) | Cited with credit |
| Market reference rates | DAT and Truckstop weekly reports, LoadBoot, Truxx.AI network rates | Not affiliated with or endorsed by these companies |
The Freight Pulse rows are monthly federal series, not a rate quote; your break-even still decides the load. Reference rates are published national averages, not a quote.
2. Notices the sources require
FRED®. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED® API Terms of Use.
OpenFEMA. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
GeoNames. ZIP-code locations are based on GeoNames data, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. MEL converted the data to a ZIP lookup; GeoNames does not endorse RateAnchor.
3. Trademarks
RateAnchor™ and the anchor-road logo are trademarks of Midnight Engine Labs LLC.
Sprinter is a trademark of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. RateAnchor uses the word only to describe a class of cargo van and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mercedes-Benz.
Other names on this page identify their owners' products or data and imply no sponsorship or endorsement.
4. Open-source software in the RateAnchor apps
This list is generated from the release build manifests of the iPhone and Android apps; it is regenerated for every release.
Open-source licenses
RateAnchor includes the open-source components below. Each is used under the license named beside it; the full license texts and the notices the licenses require follow the list.
| Component | Version | License | Copyright | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| androidx.activity:activity | 1.11.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| androidx.appcompat:appcompat | 1.7.1 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| androidx.coordinatorlayout:coordinatorlayout | 1.3.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| androidx.core:core | 1.17.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| androidx.core:core-splashscreen | 1.2.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| androidx.fragment:fragment | 1.8.9 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| androidx.webkit:webkit | 1.14.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright (C) The Android Open Source Project | Android |
| Apache Cordova (iOS bridge classes inside Capacitor's CapacitorCordova) | as shipped in @capacitor/ios 8.5.2 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright 2015-2020 The Apache Software Foundation | iPhone & iPad |
| com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp | 4.12.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright Square, Inc. | Android |
| org.apache.cordova:framework | 14.0.1 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright 2015-2020 The Apache Software Foundation | Android |
| org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core | 1.10.2 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright JetBrains Team | Android |
| PDF.js | 6.3.289 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Copyright 2024 Mozilla Foundation | iPhone & iPad, Android, web version |
| Tesseract English language data (eng.traineddata) | 4.0.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | — | web version |
| Tesseract.js | 5.1.1 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | — | web version |
| Tesseract.js core (Tesseract OCR compiled to WebAssembly) | 5.1.1 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | — | web version |
| @capacitor-community/media | 9.1.0 | MIT License | Copyright (c) Nisala Kalupahana | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor-community/speech-recognition | 7.0.1 | MIT License | Copyright (c) Priyank Patel | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/android | 8.5.2 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2017-present Drifty Co. | Android |
| @capacitor/app | 8.1.2 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/clipboard | 8.0.1 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/filesystem | 8.1.4 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2025 Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/haptics | 8.0.2 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/ios | 8.5.2 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2017-present Drifty Co. | iPhone & iPad |
| @capacitor/local-notifications | 8.3.1 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/preferences | 8.0.1 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/share | 8.0.3 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/splash-screen | 8.0.2 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capacitor/status-bar | 8.0.4 | MIT License | Copyright 2020-present Ionic | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capawesome/capacitor-app-review | 8.1.0 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2024 Robin Genz | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| @capawesome/capacitor-app-update | 8.1.0 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2021 Robin Genz | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| cordova-plugin-purchase | 13.18.0 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2014-, Jean-Christophe HOELT and contributors Copyright 2011 Matt Kane. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) Matt Kane 2011. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) Jean-Christophe Hoelt 2013 | iPhone & iPad, Android |
| core-js (inside PDF.js) | 3.50.0 | MIT License | © 2013–2025 Denis Pushkarev (zloirock.ru), 2025–2026 CoreJS Company (core-js.io). | iPhone & iPad, Android, web version |
| io.ionic.libs:ionfilesystem-android | 1.1.1 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2025 Ionic | Android |
| IONFilesystemLib | 2.0.1 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2025 Ionic | iPhone & iPad |
| SDWebImage | 5.21.7 | MIT License | Copyright (c) 2009-2020 Olivier Poitrey rs@dailymotion.com | iPhone & iPad |
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