Truck Drayage Productivity Guide (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Motor carriers balance the customer's service requirements with ship schedules and terminal capacity limitations. • The driver's expected revenue under various options.
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The rush to get newly unloaded import containers accounts for peak queues on vessel arrival days. Similarly, there is an export peak as vessel departure day approaches, and exporters work to get their outbound containers to the marine terminal before the vessel cutoff time.
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Although marine terminal gate hours and container shipping and receiving hours may seem to align, in practice they often do not because of the time and distance between them. A drayage driver first in line at 7 A.M.
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Since July 2005, all marine terminals in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have offered OffPeak shifts on nights and weekends. A Traffic Mitigation Fee of $50 per 20-ft equivalent unit (TEU)
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The trucks that have appointments equal 70%. Only 3% get trouble tickets.
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(One set of lanes is for trucks with no problems, another set is for trucks without appointments and those with trouble tickets, and another returns rejected trucks to the beginning.) At the second building, the driver swipes the TWIC.
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