Consolidated Chassis Launches Online Reservation System
Consolidated Chassis Management has introduced a web-based chassis reservation system designed for motor carriers, depot managers and chassis providers.
Inventory in CCM’s Chassis Reservation System is displayed by pool, city, depot/facility and equipment size. Customers can specify quantity, chassis provider, return date and return location for the equipment. After reserving a chassis the user receives a number that can be used to pick up a bare chassis at a specified location in the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic and Ohio Valley regions.
Budd Lake, N.J.-based CCM is a cooperative chassis pool manager, overseeing the combined fleets of multiple contributors to provide a large and diverse supply of equipment with a mix of availability options. CCM works with steamship lines, railroads, ports and motor carriers at over 300 locations nationwide.
“The premium chassis product serves a demand we saw in the market and has proven helpful to motor carriers moving in closed loops often at long distances and in recent months has served as a buffer to equipment supply post hurricanes or other negative impacts on the general chassis supply,” CCM President Jon Poelma said.
CCM’s online chassis system combines fleets of multiple contributors to provide a supply of equipment with a mix of availability options. (Consolidated Chassis Management)
The CCM program allows users to reserve a daily rental with the ocean carrier’s chosen chassis provider or select a provider within the CCM pool.
Pooled chassis systems are growing at major ports. In June, Flexi-Van Leasing and Direct Chassis Link launched a “pool of pools” that offered trucking companies access to about 8,000 chassis at the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Under the Asset Sharing Program-Northeast, or ASPN, draymen can use either supplier’s chassis to haul a container with an affiliated steamship line. The ASPN program is similar to a pool system that operates at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.
