California trucking teams ask ports for single appointments system
Trucking teams in California are petitioning officers on the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Lengthy Seaside to develop a single, unified truck appointment system for the whole San Pedro Bay complicated.
Such a system would decrease prices and increase effectivity for drayage suppliers and the 12 container terminals, the California Trucking Affiliation and the Harbor Trucking Affiliation mentioned within the Jan. 25 letter to Port of Los Angeles Government Director Gene Seroka and Port of Lengthy Seaside Government Director Mario Cordero.
“Presently, motor carriers are compelled to work between a number of totally different platforms to safe appointments,” HTA CEO Matt Schrap and CTA CEO Eric Sauer wrote. “A single system will drive down prices and enhance productiveness as motor carriers will not expend sources and time navigating as many as seven distinctive appointment programs.”
The trucking associations instructed the ports’ executives they had been inspired by the Port of Lengthy Seaside’s Provide Chain Info Freeway and up to date statements by Seroka in help of unifying truck appointments below a single system sooner or later.
“These efforts by each Ports to bolster productiveness on the complicated [have] not gone unnoticed by the motor service group,” their letter mentioned.
A profitable unified truck appointments system would require all terminals within the ports to share information and agree on frequent and constant enterprise practices, the associations mentioned. However any such program wouldn’t essentially want to exchange the programs utilized by the terminals at present.
“Any single system should work together and performance with current appointment platforms,” they mentioned. “Very probably a lot of the underlying structure for a single system could exist already throughout many software program platforms which are at the moment at work in POLA/POLB marine terminals.”
The bigger of the 2 San Pedro Bay ports is in favor of such a program. Though Seroka was touring and unavailable for an interview this week, he has been advocating for a single-appointment system for years, in keeping with port spokesman Phillip Sanfield.
“We help the idea typically,” Sanfield mentioned in an electronic mail.
Port of Lengthy Seaside officers didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
