Consolidated Chassis Management Archives

Consolidated Chassis Management opens new office in Savannah

7 March 2023

Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), a cooperative chassis pool manager, launched a new, expanded office in Savannah, US in order to accommodate the growing South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP) 3.0 team.

SACP 3.0 will start in October 2023 and it will offer a new chassis provisioning solution that utilises a single provider pool model.

“As we get closer to launch, we are building our teams, expanding our office space and enhancing CIT, our fleet management platform—all to provide the support...

https://container-news.com/consolidated-chassis-management-opens-new-office-in-savannah/

Southeast ports and carriers agree to upgrade chassis pool

8 July 2021

Port officials in Savannah, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Wilmington, North Carolina, along with the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association, have signed an agreement to upgrade and expand the South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP).

Dubbed SACP 3.0, the agreement among the Georgia Ports Authority, Jacksonville Port Authority, North Carolina State Ports Authority and the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association calls for up to 50,000 new high-tech intermodal chassis to handle the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/southeast-ports-and-carriers-agree-to-upgrade-chassis-pool

Career Tracks: TRAC taps industry veteran Forster to lead FYX

1 February 2021

TRAC Intermodal has appointed Kenneth Forster as chief executive officer at FYX Fleet Roadside Assistance effective Feb. 8.

FYX, a TRAC subsidiary, is a provider of emergency fleet services for the intermodal and over-the-road trucking industries.

Forster most recently was the chief operating officer and president at MODE Transportation in Dallas. Before that, he was the CEO of SunteckTTS, a freight brokerage. He also was the CEO at Velocity Express and AirSage.

Forster succeeds Rodney Goderwis,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/career-tracks-trac-taps-industry-veteran-forster-to-lead-fyx

FMC assigns truckers’ chassis compliant to administrative law judges

28 August 2020

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has assigned to its Office of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) a complaint from the American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) alleging massive overcharges for container chassis use in recent years.

The FMC received the complaint from the association on Aug. 17.

The agency said in a Federal Register notice on Friday that the ALJ will make an initial decision by Aug. 24, 2021, followed by a final decision by the commission...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/fmc-assigns-truckers-chassis-compliant-to-administrative-law-judges

FMCSA approves ‘performance-based’ chassis inspection training

20 August 2020

The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) this week approved an industry association’s application that will allow container chassis mechanics to qualify more efficiently to become equipment or brake inspectors.

The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) requested the FMSCA exemption to implement the chassis inspection training through a “performance-based” approach rather than time-based as prescribed by the federal government.

The association’s training program is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-approves-performance-based-chassis-inspection-training

Q&A: US container chassis industry still finding itself

6 July 2020

Container chassis in the U.S. have been a challenge to manage in the drayage and intermodal ocean transport space even during the best of economic times due to the numerous players and handoffs associated with the equipment.

There is also the ongoing regional logistics and capacity tug of war among chassis providers and users.

Mike Wilson, CEO of Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), a chassis pool management company owned by...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/qa-us-container-chassis-industry-still-finding-itself

Consolidated Chassis Management named to Food Logistics’ Top Green Providers List for 2020

18 June 2020

Mike Wilson, CEO, Consolidated Chassis Management

Consolidated Chassis Management named to Food Logistics’ Top Green Providers List for 2020

Budd Lake, NJ – June 17, 2020 —Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), the leading neutral interoperable gray chassis pool manager in the US, has been named as a Top Green Provider of 2020 by Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain.

“Our annual Top Green Providers...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/06/18/consolidated-chassis-management-named-to-food-logistics-top-green-providers-list-for-2020/