Roro and ltl freight shipping firms that have been looking for a way to deal with the need to provide chassis for their freight trucking operations as steamship lines transition away from providing chassis for long haul services might be able to stop looking. Trac Intermodal, which was formerly called Seacastle Chassis, has started a new service called Trac Connect, a web-based marketplace for marine chassis that a trucking company might require on a short to medium term basis. Trac Connect is designed to provide motor carriers with an innovative solution to steamship lines moving away from providing chassis for heavy haul firms by allowing them to enter into a chassis Interchange Agreement directly with Trac Intermodal via the internet, according to Trac Intermodal.

Trac Intermodal also indicates that Trac Connect was developed and designed to offer customers the value and efficiency of chassis pooling, the ability to quickly find the quality chassis they require, and the economy of only paying for on-demand usage. They also indicate that a main drawing feature of their new website is going to be the web-based platform the site uses to provide customers with a new level of transaction efficiency and reliability.

This services is great news for freight shipping firms that have been looking for a solution to steamship lines shifting away from providing chassis for long haul services in America. If the reviews on this new service are as good as we hope, this new service should find a few customers for its services in the days and weeks ahead in the century of the environment. The first reviews of this new service should be forthcoming shortly and this will tell us what we need to know.

Long haul executives concerned about the need to keep and locate quality freight shipping employees to work in their warehouses will be glad to hear that the Warehousing Education and Research Council recently indicated that the average employee turnouver rate among all of the warehouses they surveyed in their 2010 edition of Warehousing Salaries & Wages Report was down by about 4.1 percent since the last report in 2008. The 2010 Warehousing Salaries & Wages Report was released on Tuesday and freight trucking professionals that want a copy can find report on the Warehousing Education and Research Council's official website. If you're an American heavy haul warehousing professional, you might want to take a look at a copy, but unless you're a member of the Warehousing Education and Research Council, you'll have to pay for the report.

Sources that have looked at the 2010 edition of Warehousing Salaries & Wages Report indicate that this report has some interesting findings that will interest American roro and ltl freight shipping and warehousing professionals and maybe even the freight forwarders providing customers with a great freight quote. In particular, the exempt warehouse positions that have earned the highest median wage (base salary plus bonus) are according to this report the vice president of logistics, vice president of marketing and sales, and maybe the director of logistics. According to WERC non-exempt warehouse employees that have earned the highest median hourly wages are customer service representatives and Forklift operators, with shipping and receiving clerks a close second.

The good news in this is that the 2010 change in all non-exempt median hourly wages was positive, which according to WERC mirrors the results of the previous survey, and indications are that compensation levels among warehousing employees are steady and consistent and may stay the same for the present future.