A five-minute stress test that scores your carrier contingency and cost readiness against 141 logistics professionals.
Built on original survey data from EasyPost's Peak Readiness Index 2026.
Most teams have a peak plan. Very few have run it. When we asked 141 logistics professionals what they'd do if their primary carrier raised rates or cut capacity 20% with 30 days' notice, only one in three had a tested answer. The rest are carrying a hypothesis into their highest-stakes quarter, and mid-November is the most expensive possible place to test one.
The Peak Readiness Stress Test asks the questions a mid-season disruption would ask: whether your backup accounts are live, whether your rates are current, whether real volume has ever moved through your alternative, and whether you can see your actual all-in cost per shipment. Your answers get scored against the Index data and placed on the contingency ladder, from "no plan" to automated failover. You leave knowing your risk tier, where you stand against your segment, and the one fix that matters most before October.
The test runs your contingency through the five questions that separate tested plans from theoretical ones. Any "no" is a specific gap with a specific fix, not a general warning.
Cost is both the top concern and the top visibility gap in this year's survey. The test checks whether you can answer the question peak pricing will ask: what does a shipment actually cost you after accessorials land?
Your result maps to a priority action from the 90-day readiness plan — the audit, the tabletop test, or the routing lock — matched to where your risk actually is.
Answer questions about your carrier mix, backup status, and cost visibility. No integration, no account needed.
Get your risk tier and your rung on the contingency ladder, benchmarked against 141 logistics professionals and your segment.
Get your fix list: what to audit, test, or lock first, with the Carrier Contingency Checklist to run it.
Read what 141 logistics professionals told us about Peak 2026.
Read the full Peak Readiness IndexNo. The test is free, works for any carrier mix, and doesn't require an account.
Your results appear on screen either way. If you opt in to the full results email, someone from EasyPost may follow up — that's the trade, stated plainly.
Your answers are weighted against the readiness dimensions from the Peak Readiness Index: contingency testing, cost visibility, and operational visibility. It's a structured self-assessment against survey benchmarks, not a black box.
The questions target decisions every shipper makes — backup carriers, routing rules, invoice reconciliation — not any particular stack. If you ship parcels in Q4, it applies.
Five minutes. Ten questions. One priority.