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Tag: Containers

How’s a 21-hour wait to unload at 21 below sound?

Think your customer might tell you the delivery location is going to close with the weather? Think again … Also: Port of Baltimore container haulers picket over wait times at Seagirt terminal; “slow roll” press attention-grabber last weekend drew several dozen haulers and others in Illinois.

January 31, 2019

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Spot market update: If you’re following the demand, ‘Go west, young man’

“The whole West Coast is showing good freight and rising rates,” notes DAT’s Ken Harper, particularly in van/reefer segments. “L.A.-Long Beach was driven by the Hanjin debacle,” the abrupt bankruptcy of the Hanjin ocean shipping company, but Northern California and the Northwest are showing improvement as well.

September 29, 2016

Van overview: West Coast markets are hot, and they’re getting hotter. The load-to-truck ratio in Los Angeles lit up the entire state of California on the Hot Market map. Van trends are more mixed in the Midwest, and rates are moving down in the East.

‘Hotshot on steroids’: Straight Forward Transportation of Ohio

Sue and Kevin Nelson’s 2012 single-drive-axle Freightliner Columbia is Straight Forward Transportation’s “hotshot on steroids,” says Sue Nelson, acquired to augment a business founded the non-dually drive axle of a Ford F250 pickup, still in operation.

December 4, 2014

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More than an office: Other novel uses for shipping containers

Readers offer different ideas for ways to repurpose intermodal shipping containers in building projects.

December 12, 2012

Sandwiched between two buildings in Antwerp, Belgium, is this four-story headquarters of the Sculp(IT) architecture firm, built from four stacked containers. You can read more about the location in a past issue of Truckers News.

Making the most of idle time with uncompensated detention solutions

Readers voices views on the issue of uncompensated detention time at shipper and receiver facilities, an agreed-upon top problem for driver and owner-operators today.

November 7, 2012

Making the most of a long wait

Could EOBRs solve the detention dilemma?

EOBRs can give owner-operators a powerful tool when dealing with customers and the shipping/receiving facilities relative to detention time. Given that stopped time and location is easily retrievable with the systems, operators now have ready-made documentation to prove detention time to the shipper, beyond just drivers’ word.

May 4, 2012

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