Port drayage · intermodal motor carriers
Turned away at the gate? Don't pay per diem for it.
Objective proof of appointment freezes, empty-return refusals, chassis outages and turn times, tied to every per diem day billed.
§ 545.5
the Commission weighs empty-return availability when judging whether detention is reasonable
Recommended plan: Recovery Starter
The problem
Where drayage carriers lose money.
Empties
Empty returns refused
Your driver arrives with the empty and the terminal is not accepting that size and type. Per diem keeps running.
Appointments
No slots to book
The appointment system shows nothing for days. The steamship line bills per diem anyway.
Chassis
Chassis outages and splits
No chassis at the terminal or a split you could not avoid. The record exists in your dispatch system but never reaches the dispute.
Pass-through
BCOs and lines push charges down
Per diem is billed to you under interchange terms even when the delay sat with the terminal or the line.
The approach
Your dispatch data, turned into evidence.
ATAHSKIA connects to your drayage TMS and GPS feeds and pairs each per diem day with what your trucks and the terminal actually did: arrival at the geofence, the turn-away, the appointment snapshot, the empty-return notice.
Per diem invoices are checked against the billing rule like any other, and each disputed day carries its timestamped evidence.
- Geofence arrival and departure times per terminal
- Turn-away and empty-refusal capture
- Appointment availability snapshots
- Chassis outage evidence from pool notices
Try it
See per diem against the gate record.
Red days were charged while the equipment could not be returned or picked up.
ATPU 300917 2, ATPU 301144 8, ATPU 301520 5
Port of New York and New Jersey · $300/day per container
- Sep 17 Discharged from vesselEDI 315 (UV)
- Sep 18 Available for pickupTerminal TOS
- Sep 23 Terminal closed: high windsTerminal advisory
- Sep 24 Terminal closed: high windsTerminal advisory
- Sep 25 Zero import appointments offeredTerminal appointment portal
- Sep 30 Last container out-gatedGate transaction
Select a red day to see the evidence captured for it.
3 blocked of 9 charged days · $2,700 challengeable under § 545.5
“We used to eat per diem every time an empty got refused. Now the refusal notice, the GPS stamp and the appointment screenshot go out with the dispute.”
Questions from drayage carriers
Is there a drayage-specific plan?
Most carriers start on Recovery Starter. Fleets with high per diem volume can talk to sales about a dedicated per diem package.
Which TMS platforms do you connect to?
PortPro natively, plus CSV and API ingestion for other drayage systems. GPS data can come from your ELD provider exports.
Can a motor carrier be billed for D&D at all?
Whether a party is a proper billed party depends on the facts. Every invoice must state the basis for why the billed party is liable under § 541.6(a)(4); ATAHSKIA flags invoices that omit it.
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