* Virginia - Web app PortNinja comes to aid of drayage truckers
-- The same developers that debuted a Web app to cut down on truck drivers’ empty runs are about to launch a new truck-focused traffic app... Like Waze, the Google traffic app driven entirely by input from its users, PortNinja from the developers of Quick180 will allow truck drivers to report problems — backed-up gates, downed equipment, port congestion — and allows other drivers to confirm reports... The free app, available next week, gives drivers a bird’s-eye view of port conditions so they can plan their daily moves more efficiently, Quick180 CEO Rick Knapp told JOC.com Friday... Productivity on the Virginia waterfront has dropped 50 percent since the Presidents’ Day weekend shutdown. Conditions at terminal gates in Virginia have improved, however, since late February and early March, when drivers were waiting in excess of eight hours just to reach containers... After waiting hours to reach their load, many drivers have been running out of working hours, some forced to sleep in their cabs overnight. Because of the delays, trucking firms have raised rates to new highs, and there is already talk of several smaller firms closing shop or consolidating in light of the unrelenting conditions. Individual truck drivers have gone so far as to band together, launching campaigns on Facebook and across social media to keep each other informed of terminal conditions and make public appeals to the port authority... The Quick180 web app, launched late last year, uses intelligent algorithms to match importers’ empty containers with exporters who need a box in or near a particular ZIP code... Knapp estimates Quick180 will be able to match as many as 300,000 containers annually in Virginia...
Port of Virginia - VIR, USA - J.O.C., by Reynolds Hutchins - May 08, 2015Labels: techno trucks, truckers news USA
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