Telematics help maximize existing capacity and decrease driver dwell times

Truck picks up containers at port

The fight to secure trucks continues into late January, even after the expected loosening of post-holiday capacity when volumes ease and drivers return to the road. While tender rejections are following a seasonal downward pattern, the levels are much higher than two years prior and carriers are still rejecting almost one out of every four tenders at contract rates. 

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What makes this capacity issue even more complicated is that driver...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/telematics-help-maximize-existing-capacity-and-decrease-driver-dwell-dimes

Port of LA will pay container terminals for efficiency gains

The Port of Los Angeles is willing to pay out $7.5 million to San Pedro Bay container terminals over the next year if they turn trucks faster.

“We see this as an investment in our efficiency,” a port spokesman told American Shipper Wednesday.

The port announced this week that beginning Feb. 1, it will reward container terminals for both improving truck turn times and completing dual transactions.

The port said the incentive program is designed to help move trucks faster and more efficiently...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-la-will-pay-container-terminals-for-efficiency-gains

US-based CIE Manufacturing takes aim at chassis shortage

From sea to shining sea, CIE Manufacturing (CIEM) is gearing up its container chassis production for the North American market. With chassis already rolling off the line at the company’s manufacturing facility in Virginia, and manufacturing of the second wave in California is now underway.

Headquartered in South Gate, California, CIEM is now producing its new North American Pioneer Chassis line on the West Coast, just a 20-minute drive from two of the country’s most congested ports — the Ports...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-based-cie-manufacturing-takes-aim-at-chassis-shortage

Port of Long Beach delivering cargo information in waves

The Port of Long Beach is changing the way cargo information flows. 

“We’ve changed how we post our cargo snapshot,” the port tweeted Monday, announcing it would publish “the new WAVE (Weekly Advance Volume Estimate) report on Monday mornings instead of a daily snapshot.”

The tweet included a link to this week’s WAVE report

The Port of Long Beach said in a press release that it had launched the report “to shine a spotlight on anticipated cargo flow and widely share key data with every link in...

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