PRIVATE CHASSIS WORTH WEIGHT IN GOLD
The demand for pool of pools’ chassis at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is often greater than supply and port appointments missed due to chassis shortages can wreak havoc with warehouse productivity and increase your product’s time to market. Plus, demurrage charges are expensive. So, what can you do when waiting for pool of pools’ chassis to become available is not an acceptable option? The answer is to use privately owned chassis.
Whisk Logistics has 250 privately owned chassis. All of Whisk’s chassis are equipped with GPS tracking that provides real-time visibility and an extra layer of security while your cargo is in transit from the port to your warehouse. Never again will you have to second guess whether your cargo has been picked up and “IF” it’s currently in route to your warehouse. With Whisk’s real-time GPS tracking, Whisk can tell you where your freight is and when it will arrive at your warehouse.
Private Chassis Fleet Benefits:
- Increased availability of chassis during Peak Season and other Surge Periods and the ability to continue to pick up freight when the gray pool is depleted
- Expense avoidance (idle warehouse time while your containers sit at the port, dry run costs, demurrage charges, increased time to market and in the worst case lost sales)
- GPS tracking that provides enhanced security
Any number of factors can create congestion at the Ports: labor and equipment shortages, increased volume prior to holiday shutdowns, stop work meetings and more. When congestion becomes too great terminals will block or place onerous conditions on the return of empty containers (often with little or no warning). When motor carriers are blocked from returning empty containers, they are forced to drop the empty containers in their yards and are prevented from reusing the chassis to pick up the next loaded container. This, coupled with gray pool chassis shortages and long lines to enter the port, create challenges in hitting loaded container appointment windows. In times of sever congestion or gray pool chassis shortages (that sometimes last for weeks) motor carrier productivity is cut in half. This decrease in productivity results in delayed pickups and higher costs (such as per diem charges on empty containers that can’t be returned and demurrage charges on loaded containers that can’t be picked up).
As a full-service transportation provider, Whisk Logistics maintains a large private chassis fleet that allows it to continue to pick up loaded containers at the Ports not only when the pool of pools chassis fleet is depleted but also when terminals restrict the return of empty containers.
Contact Whisk Logistics today to discuss how Whisk’s private chassis pool can help you sidestep the most common bottlenecks preventing container pick-ups from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach so your freight gets to your warehouses rather than staying trapped at the Ports.