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The Tuesday Read.
One email a week on pallet cost inputs. Federally-anchored, methodology-published, ten minutes start to finish.
What you get
Three things every Tuesday.
The Tuesday Read is the free, public layer on top of Atlas+. Same federal sources, same methodology, no paywall. A way to take the pulse of pallet costs without signing anything.
What moved this week
Five federal cost-input series, plain-English read on what shifted and why.
30-day TimesFM forecast
Forward projection from Google TimesFM 2.5 with the 95% confidence band, every week.
Public-domain CSV
Full historical PSCI as a CC0 download, refreshed every Tuesday at 10:01 AM ET.
Recent editions
A taste of the last month.
2026-05-12
Diesel softening absorbs a hot lumber print
PSCI lands at 111.84 (+1.06% WoW) as softwood lumber climbs 2.1% on tariff anticipation, partially offset by a -0.4% diesel move.
2026-05-05
PADD 2 corridor diverges from national PSCI
Midwest pallet costs run 80 bps above the national composite for the third week in a row. Wages and warehouse-labor lift carry most of the gap.
2026-04-28
OCC at a six-month low: what this means for pallets
Old corrugated containers PPI has cooled four straight weeks. With OCC weighted at 5%, the index impact is small but the supply-chain signal is louder.
2026-04-21
BLS PPI methodology revision: how PSCI handles it
BLS quarterly seasonal adjustments restated Q1 wood pallet PPI by ~30 bps. PSCI republishes the affected weeks dated, with the original alongside.
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This week
111.84
+11.84% since Jan 2024
PSCI v1.3 · As of 2026-05-05