DOD Plan Draws Trucker Objections

Some truckers who haul for the Department of Defense are raising objections to a billing plan that could force them to give up from 1% to 2% of freight charges in order to get paid.

An agreement is expected to be announced this week between DOD and the U.S. Bank of Minneapolis to institute a new electronic freight payment system, called PowerTrack.

The new procedure is designed to speed payments by eliminating much of the paperwork associated with the delivery of munitions and other goods to military facilities across the United States.

However, carriers say the plan is the latest in a series of new policies that are making it increasingly difficult and costly to do business with DOD, which spends an estimated $4 billion a year on transportation.

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