Federal safety standards for Chassis to go into effect June 30th

Federal safety standards for Chassis to go into effect June 30^th.

This recent development in safety standards has accelerated a shift in ownership and management of chassis’s in the inter-modal industry.   Shipping companies are moving to their core competencies in these tough economic times and that means they are no longer going to be providing chassis’s for free to the trucking industry.   This shift has been in the works for over 30 years according to Daniel Smith with Tioga Group, Inc., an inter-modal consultant group.

Semi trailer chassis

For trucking companies moving shipping containers this means lots of changes.  New regulations, new standards, and additional equipment cost, maintenance and management.   The management of these chassis assets is critical to these trucking companies that use chassis’s to make 20 million trips a year delivering container shipments.   Management of these inventories so that the utilization of these chassis assets are optimized is critical to the bottom line.

Track What Matters provides an inexpensive GPS Asset Tracker device that can be tracked from any internet enabled device for pennies a day.   Tracking of equipment saves time and money.  Instead of guessing where your assets are you will know.  And by tracking activity you also can manage your inventory so that you optimize the use of your investment preventing over use and over buying.   Chassis Tracking just makes cents.

Source: Transport Topics