Detention Pay: $1.3B annual Shaft

I don't think anybody's denying long delays are a problem. Question is what can be done about it? Sometimes it's just a chronically slow facility, but sometimes there's a legitimate problem that can cause an isolated delay, such as a production line breakdown or other inbound shipment that was late. But lot's of times, it is a carrier late arrival [to an appointment] that leads to an extended delay and you can't expect the carrier to be honest about the situation in later discussions ... but often it's an earlier lengthy delay at a receiver that leads to a late arrival at a preplanned shipper.

It's the chronically slow facilities that need to be addressed, but how does the industry identify these facilities? Then once they are identified, what's going to be done about it?

 

I thought the elog was going to fix this? Lol!

 

But in the circles I run in (truckload frozen and chilled foods primarily) I see long delays slowly happening less and less frequently. So it seems the problem is improving organically in reaction to certain pressures from various angles. Sure, there are some places that will refuse to work to improve their operations, but with eLogs, these places will quickly find it hard to get trucks at the cheaper rates they're accustomed to. They'll eventually have to do something. Let the market work and give "eLogs reality" a chance to impact the market at all levels and let's see what happens by the end of 2018. Let the "cheap freight haulers" have the slow shipper and/or receiver freight [that will filter out to brokers eventually].

 

It cost the drivers and the companies $$$ when the equipment is tied up.
Easily reach into the Billions

 

Schneider tried geofencing a few years ago. At the time gps/connectivity wasn't quite reliable enough leading to many false readings. Anyplace backing onto to a freeway would trigger the geofence as you drove by.

Technology is better now, but there's still too many legacy dispatching programs in use, too much proprietary information at stake to have companies want to share that kind of data.