Consolidated Chassis Launches Online Reservation System
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Consolidated Chassis Management has introduced a web-based chassis reservation system designed for motor carriers, depot managers and chassis providers.
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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.
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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.