ITE Management has acquired the North American Chassis Pool Cooperative, expanding its intermodal platform to over 60,000 units.
Chassis provider CCM has expanded its management team with a new senior vice president/general counsel coming over from a major Japanese auto maker.
TRAC GeoFleet is an innovative on-demand chassis solution that offers customers guaranteed chassis availability alongside usage-based billing.
Trac Intermodal is positioning its leading fleet of 200,000 chassis to support a tariff pause-fueled surge of import containers.
Fresh off a year of recovery and stabilization, chassis manufacturers are counting on upgraded technology and revitalized fleets to maneuver through challenges in 2025.
Direct ChassisLink Inc. announced it’s adding GPS tracking to its entire fleet of 53-foot domestic chassis.
EV startup Harbinger grabbed $400 million in vehicle orders and announced a $73 million Series A funding round.
NEXT Trucking recently announced product and program updates as part of its tech stack improvements following its merger with CDL-1000.
An administrative law judge ruling against the current system of chassis pools was upheld by the full Federal Maritime Commission.
Although the U.S. supply chain may no longer be imperiled by the pandemic-era chassis shortage, companies should still act in response to expectations that e-commerce and global trade will only continue to grow, according to the president and CEO of Trac Intermodal.
Last month, CloudTrucks surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults about general perceptions of truck drivers and if they have heard of the truck parking shortage. The results, published in CloudTrucks’ 2023 Truck Parking Shortage Survey, highlight that while Americans generally have a positive view of truck drivers, most respondents didn’t know that the parking shortage had a major impact on their quality of life.
The great chassis squeeze in intermodal transport is not done yet, according to a panel of executives at the annual IANA meeting.
American Made Chassis, an alliance of LB Steel and Integrated Industries, will build the chassis at an Illinois facility.
The South Atlantic Chassis Pool 3.0, will be ready in October 2023 and will have 60,000 chassis available.
Infrastructure and capacity expansion projects, regulatory uncertainties and progress toward supply chain visibility and sustainability are the themes that rail and intermodal stakeholders have set their sights on in 2022.
Much of the supply chain stress stems from a lack of labor, infrastructure and the widespread lack of technology.
The quick movement of chassis and containers at the port, warehouse and yard is key to regaining supply chain efficiency.
TRAC Intermodal President and CEO Daniel Walsh chats with FreightWaves about chassis availability and market conditions into 2022.
The SACP 3.0 agreement will create the largest fully interoperable chassis pool in the U.S., covering the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
NS is working to repair a defect that could affect over 5,000 chassis. The repairs come amid high congestion at terminals and intermodal facilities across the U.S.
