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TruthBear Land Border Wait Chain – Single Crossing
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TruthBear Land Border Wait Chain – Single Crossing is a paid API for AI agents from api.truthbear.co, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns a 3-leg sequential signal chain (upstream pressure → current CBP wait times → realized freight delay) for a single monitored US land border crossing.
Price / call$0.25
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
[3-LEG] Land border chain, one crossing (?entity=laredo-world-trade): leading upstream pressure - lead traffic, staffing and inspection intensity -> current current CBP border wait times by lane -> realized commercial freight delay (confirmation gate). A chain, not one reading: confidence = how many legs are lit, in order. Sources: US CBP. Descriptive only, never a forecast or advice. No data -> 422 no_charge, not billed. $0.25 per call.
Output
A sequential 3-leg chain result: (1) leading upstream pressure signal (lead traffic, staffing, and inspection intensity), (2) current CBP border wait times broken down by lane type, and (3) realized commercial freight delay confirmation. Each leg has a lit/unlit status; overall confidence equals the number of legs lit in order. Returns 422 with no charge if no data is available.
Example use cases
Freight dispatcher checking Laredo congestion
“Pull the current 3-leg border wait chain for the Laredo World Trade crossing — I need to know upstream traffic pressure, live CBP wait times by lane, and whether there's confirmed freight delay building up right now.”
Supply chain analyst monitoring Otay Mesa
“What's the border congestion chain showing for the Otay Mesa commercial crossing? I want to see how many of the three signal legs are active and whether the realized freight delay leg has triggered.”
Trade logistics agent comparing crossing conditions
“Check the border wait chain for the El Paso Ysleta crossing — specifically the staffing and inspection intensity signal and the current lane wait times, so I can decide which crossing to route our trucks through today.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.truthbear.co/gauge/border-wait-regionWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a real-time, multi-signal view of a specific US land border crossing for commercial freight — combining upstream traffic pressure, live CBP lane wait times, and realized delay confirmation into one confidence-scored chain. Prefer this over raw CBP data sources when you want a structured, normalized chain signal with a confidence indicator rather than a single raw reading. Use sibling endpoint gauge/history-series for historical trend exports, or gauge/calibrated for cross-station normalized comparisons.
Side effects
- 422 no_charge returned when no data is available for the requested entity — not billed
- Invalid or unrecognized entity ID returns an error; valid IDs can be fetched from GET /gauge/catalog
- Missing required 'entity' query parameter causes request failure
- Partial chain confidence if only some legs have live data (e.g. only leg 1 and 2 lit, leg 3 dark)
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| input | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"legs": {
"crossing_wait": {
"band": "light",
"source_ref": "https://bwt.cbp.gov/",
"record_hash": "sha256:ad4ecd20ecba3de649242d89076dd79d11828c496276568906249b024ec0c599"
},
"lane_capacity": {
"band": "reduced",
"source_ref": "https://bwt.cbp.gov/",
"record_hash": "sha256:42aa54a3ecf7f431edc221b0e3e53953d4836bc0332891d0b2f67c0868afaee3"
},
"freight_delay_realized": {
"band": "clear",
"source_ref": "https://bwt.cbp.gov/",
"record_hash": "sha256:99f6ff09eb59175358f07f1432b9b7d53925681780bd07acc18e8f2edcb3aac6"
}
},
"name": "Laredo – World Trade Bridge",
"grade": "screening-level, not decision-grade",
"scope": {
"full": "https://api.truthbear.co/scope/v1",
"verifiability": "unknown",
"monitoring_not_forecast": true,
"intelligence_not_command": true
},
"entity": "laredo-world-trade",
"nature": "This API supplies data organisation and trend description only. It is not a recommendation to act; the decision is yours. Purely descriptive - no judgement, no prediction. Official source plus record_hash; verify with the free /gauge/verify.",
"provenance": {
"freshness": "fresh",
"age_hours_now": 1,
"freshness_basis": "cadence=default; fresh<=24h; recent<=192h; dead_source>1440h; age_basis=request-time(now minus observed_at)"
}
}
}Tags
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