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IAS ChassisManager software to cut empty truck miles, paperwork hassles

OAKLAND's International Asset Systems (IAS), a cloud-based software provider for intermodal transport, has announced the launch of its ChassisManager, to enabled truckers and ocean carriers to manage the financial and liability side of their chassis business.

"By eliminating impediments to optimisation, IAS makes it easier for intermodal participants to reduce empty mileage, cut fuel costs, decrease congestion and eliminate cumbersome administration," said the company statement.

ChassisManager supports two different street-turn scenarios, it said. The first is interchange of a container and chassis "set-up" between two motor carriers, without either one entering a chassis pool start/stop location.

At this point, chassis billing and liability stops for one entity and begins for the other, thus eliminating empty miles and the need for rebills with complete visibility for all parties, the company said.

"IAS has a long history of enabling asset optimisation through re-use, interchange, match-back or street-turn," said IAS chief executive Paul Crinks.

"ChassisManager's new capability is particularly critical in the new chassis market because it provides an auditable record of chassis liability transfer, as well as billing accuracy for both parties to a street turn," he said.

Said happy customer Roswell Ramseur, of Roswell Trucking of Richmond, Virginia: "After a street turn our chassis invoice is lower since billing stops the day we turned the set-up over to the other trucking company. There is no more back and forth sorting out credits."

The second scenario involves a motor carrier re-using a set-up for two moves involving the same ocean carrier - a "merchant haul" or BCO-controlled move on one leg and a "carrier haul" move on the other.

"In this case ChassisManager utilises specific event and shipment information from the ocean carrier, matched up with the motor carrier's activity, to facilitate the transition and bill each party accordingly," said the statement.

Said trucker Keith Munn of Bridge Terminal Transport in Chesapeake, Virginia: "Many times we have an import carrier haul box and chassis that we can use for an export merchant haul booking for the same ocean carrier.

"I'd like to re-use that set-up for the second move. ChassisManager's street turn capability stops billing the ocean carrier for the chassis on the import, and transfers it to me for the export. It eliminates a lot of email. No one wants to return a set-up when it can be re-used for another load," said Mr Munn.