Chassis providers Flexi-Van Leasing and Direct ChassisLink Inc. will launch a “pool of pools” beginning June 1, offering trucking companies shared chassis at the Port of New York and New Jersey.
May 9, 2017Business
Trac Intermodal to Use Radial Tires on Chassis in Alabama
Trac Intermodal is changing the tires on its chassis in Mobile, Alabama, from bias ply to radial tires, which the company said will improve the performance and reliability for truck drivers.
January 27, 2017Business
DCLI to Raise Chassis Fees; Trucking Response Mixed
Direct ChassisLink Inc. will raise daily chassis rates it charges trucking companies to haul containers from ports in the Southeast, Gulf Coast and Midwest beginning Dec. 15, following similar increases from Trac Intermodal and Flexi-Van Leasing Inc. this summer.
December 5, 2016Business
Southern California Terminal Operators Drop Chassis Fee Plan
Southern California marine terminals have dropped a plan to charge chassis lessors $5 per unit traveling through cargo facilities in the face of opposition from the businesses that provide the majority of chassis equipment to move truck freight in the region.
August 23, 2016Business
Intermodal Chassis Provider DCLI to Be Bought by Private Equity Firm
Private equity firm EQT Infrastructure II Fund has agreed to buy intermodal equipment provider Direct ChassisLink Inc. from investor Littlejohn & Co. for an undisclosed sum, a move that represents the latest shake-up in the provision of chassis for shippers, truckers, ocean carriers and railroads.
May 12, 2016Business
Groups Say Parties Are Making Progress in Effort to Form N.Y.-N.J. Chassis Pool
Efforts to finally create a New York-New Jersey area chassis pool are ongoing as equipment providers, labor and port executives attempt to craft a workable approach to the thorny issue, trucking officials said.
August 17, 2015Business
Consolidated Chassis Management Appoints Poelma to Succeed Wojcik
Intermodal equipment pool operator Consolidated Chassis Management said that Jon Poelma has been appointed senior vice president and chief operator, succeeding CEO Phil Wojcik in the top management post.
July 2, 2015Business
Three Large Chassis Owners Begin Pool in Southern California to Tackle Shortage
Three of the largest intermodal chassis owners announced the startup of a pool in Southern California that is meant to address ongoing difficulties with equipment supply at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.
March 9, 2015Business
Southern California Chassis Pool Begins Operation
Three of the largest intermodal chassis owners said they have begun operating a pool at Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, the nation’s two largest ports, to improve trucking operations.
March 2, 2015Business
DOJ Ruling Clears Way to Advance SoCal Chassis Pool Plan
LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Justice Department has cleared the way for greater cooperation between two of the three largest chassis pool operators in the Los Angeles and Long Beach area that is intended to further free flow of chassis throughout the port.
September 23, 2014