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Hour-long LA-LB truck turn times thing of past - 90 minutes is new normal
LA-LONG BEACH harbour truckers are experiencing 90-minute turn times at marine terminal gates when last year they were only an hour long, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
The longer turn times do not hurt as much today as they did then because many trucking companies have succeeded in getting customers to pay for dwell time.
"Because of the port congestion the past year, the industry for the first time has gotten creative with rates and driver pay. That's the silver lining," said Harbour Trucking Association executive director Weston La Bar.
The southern California trucking association tracks turn times on a daily basis with LA-Long Beach numbers for June showing 93 as the minutes average turn time for all 13 terminals.
About 37.6 per cent of the visits took less than one hour, 36.4 per cent between one and two hours and 26.1 per cent took more than two hours.
Turn times of more than two hours are ruinous to port productivity and cause drivers, most of whom are paid by the trip, to lose money.
Much of the delay was directly related to docker go slows during the contract talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the waterfront bosses of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). Delays were also due to the lack of truck chassis.
With the resolution of a tentative coastwide contract on February 20, and ratification of the agreement by the ILWU and PMA in late May, congestion has steadily diminished. But truck turn times appear to be stuck with no immediate hope for relief.
A recent study by PIERS stated that vessels calling in Los Angeles-Long Beach generate an average of more than 5,000 container moves per visit, far more than at any other port in the world.
New York-New Jersey comes in second. The two largest US port complexes also experience more congestion problems than other ports, said the report.
The longer turn times do not hurt as much today as they did then because many trucking companies have succeeded in getting customers to pay for dwell time.
"Because of the port congestion the past year, the industry for the first time has gotten creative with rates and driver pay. That's the silver lining," said Harbour Trucking Association executive director Weston La Bar.
The southern California trucking association tracks turn times on a daily basis with LA-Long Beach numbers for June showing 93 as the minutes average turn time for all 13 terminals.
About 37.6 per cent of the visits took less than one hour, 36.4 per cent between one and two hours and 26.1 per cent took more than two hours.
Turn times of more than two hours are ruinous to port productivity and cause drivers, most of whom are paid by the trip, to lose money.
Much of the delay was directly related to docker go slows during the contract talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the waterfront bosses of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). Delays were also due to the lack of truck chassis.
With the resolution of a tentative coastwide contract on February 20, and ratification of the agreement by the ILWU and PMA in late May, congestion has steadily diminished. But truck turn times appear to be stuck with no immediate hope for relief.
A recent study by PIERS stated that vessels calling in Los Angeles-Long Beach generate an average of more than 5,000 container moves per visit, far more than at any other port in the world.
New York-New Jersey comes in second. The two largest US port complexes also experience more congestion problems than other ports, said the report.
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