* California - Harbor Trucking Association has a new venture to reduce congestion around the ports
-- The Harbor Trucking Association, an industry group, announced Wednesday it is supporting a new venture to reduce congestion around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach... In launching its Trucker Chassis Connection, the association joins other business and government organizations in the harbor area that are seeking to improve the way port truckers get road equipment needed to move freight out of port terminals... Difficulties related to the availability of chassis have been blamed as a major factor in congestion problems around the ports... The new program was announced as a partnership between HTA and Chassis Finder, a Wichita, Kansas company operating an online system for trucking companies seeking to lease available trailers. The trade group’s member companies will be able to use the new chassis pool on June 1... Initial plans call for 200 chassis to be set aside for trucking companies doing business at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with another 50 chassis set aside for the Port of Oakland... At least for now, the new chassis pool represents a small number of trailers when compared to the roughly 80,000 chassis a trio of major equipment leasing firms have gathered into what has been called a “pool of pools” or “gray pool” ... Three companies, Direct Chassis Link, Inc., Flexi-Van Leasing Inc. and TRAC Intermodal formed the new pool in March in an attempt to improve the flow of goods around the harbor by allowing truckers to use chassis interchangeably instead of having to worry about whether the equipment is contractually tied to a particular shipping line...
(Photo: Port of Long Beach) -- Long Beach, CAL, USA - Press-Telegram, by Andrew Edwards - 20 May 2015
Labels: ports' congestions
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