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Jason Hilsenbeck
LoadMatch & Drayage.com
President – Founder
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Intermodal Equipment Matching
 Drayage truckers post having empty containers
 Shippers/Freight Forwarders/Ocean Lines/IMCs
post loads needing containers
 Email or XML message is sent to each party
when a posting matches a need with a have
 Free to post …AND no transaction fees
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Phonebook of Draymen
 Currently 2000+ unique draymen profiles listed
(was 1900 draymen last year at this time)
 Search draymen in USA & Canada for chassis,
haz-mat, transloading-warehousing, customs
bonded, parking, CY operations, SCAC, TWIC,
dry / refrigerated / household / tank drayage
 Blast an email out to a group of draymen that
matches your requirements
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Online since 1999, our goal is to provide visibility
online of equipment, power only, and loads to
the Intermodal - Import/Export community
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Full Membership is just flat $50 per month
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Independently owned; not affiliated with any
customer or vendor
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LoadMatch doesn’t broker and doesn’t own any
trucks.
Unit Count
Intermodal 53’ Container Fleets - United States (dry, for railroad)
66,000
25,000
18,000
14,000
8700
5000
1000
1000
800
500
400
350
200
600
141,550
32,000
31,000
4000
900
400
68,300
JBHU - JB Hunt (+7000 from last year)
HGIU, HGWU, UPHU, NHUU, NHWU, HUNU - Hub Group (+1000 from last year)
PACU - Pacer (unchanged)
SNLU - Schneider (-200 retired, adding 2,000 new in Feb)
SWRU - Swift (unchanged)
UPSU - UPS (unchanged)
APDU - APL Logistics (unchanged)
RBTU - CH Robinson (unchanged)
UTLU - Universal Logistics (+200 from last year)
CFQU - COFC Logistics (-350 BRNU, ordering 500 more arriving summer)
MTLU - Marten (unchanged)
DRTU - Dart (unchanged)
MLHU - Matson Logistics (unchanged)
MEQU - Milestone (brand new pool starting spring 2014 for short term lease)
total managed by United States, Motor Carrier & 3PL
EMHU - UP/NS/CP (+1000 from last year)
UMAX - UP/CSX (-1000 from last year)
CSXU - CSX (unchanged)
TMXU - NS Thoroughbred Direct (+400 last year, some restenciled KCMU)
XFEU - Florida East Coast (unchanged)
total managed by United States, Railroad
209,850 total managed by United States, Railroad+Motor Carrier
+8440 since last year
& 3PL
data as of Feb 3, 2014 - researched by Jason Hilsenbeck, owner of
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209,850 x 53’ managed by Railroad + Motor
Carrier + 3PL in United States
(201,410 last year at this time)
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in Canada 13,350 x 53’ dry & heated
containers managed by Canadian National
(8250 CNRU) & Canadian Pacific (5100 CPPU)
(12,400 last year at this time)
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around 3000 x 53’ containers made for ocean
vessels (Trailer Bridge, Crowley, Sea Star, Alaskan
Marine, Totem)
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APL abandoned 53’ ocean containers
(53’s that sailed to/from China, APHU prefix)
* Trailer Bridge, Crowley, Sea Star, Alaskan Marine, Totem all
operate 53’ ocean containers
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Schneider National launching company
owned 53’ chassis fleet, 600 chassis received
in October, two years to complete transition.
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Schneider National Bulk Carriers launched
liquid bulk intermodal service on new 40’ tank
containers.
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Cold Train opens Chicago office, expanded 53’
reefer fleet to 300 (Washington state and
Oregon to/from Midwest and East Coast)
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New start-up company Tiger Cool Express has
acquired 200 refrigerated containers from
Quest Capital Group to begin operations in
spring (principals Thomas Finkbinder, Thomas
Shurstad, Theodore Prince)
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5/2013 – Weiss-Rohlig relocated from Des
Plaines to Elk Grove Village, IL (off Estes Rd) into
new 87,975 sq ft building (occupying 57%)
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5/2013 –Yusen Logistics opened new 229,000 sq
ft Warehouse in Elk Grove Village, IL (off Busse Rd)
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1/2014 – Odyssey Logistics buys CMI Logistics /
Orland Park (Odyessy owns Interdom Partners in Palos Heights,
and Optimodal, Inc in PA, a domestic intermodal tank provider.. not the
old Hub Group division)
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1/2014 – Axsun opened new intermodal office in
Chicago (HQ is Montreal, offices in Toronto and Los
Angeles, has private fleet of 53’ reefer containers)
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2013 – XPO Logistics expands downtown
Chicago office to 100+, add drayage brokering.
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1/2014 – XPO Logistics buys Pacer
“This transaction will make us the third largest North
American provider of intermodal services”
Did you know? People in downtown Chicago in or
near Loop working at:
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CH Robinson / downtown …around 1000
Coyote / downtown …1000
Echo Global / downtown …1000
XPO Logistics (120), Total Quality Logistics,
Arrowstream, Load Delivered
* estimate 4000 people working at 3PL’s
downtown
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5/2013 – RoadRunner Intermodal acquires Adrian
Carriers (serving Quad Cities to Chicago ramps) and
Wando Trucking (Charleston & Savannah ports)
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8/2013 shipping line Maersk sells drayage subsidiary
Bridge Terminal Transport to Platinum Equity (BTT is
independent now)
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9/2012 – RoadOne creates QLS Services, an agent
network with US IntermodaLogistics being a brand
name (agents in Chicago, NY/NJ, Syracuse, Norfolk,
Houston)
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10/2013 – ASF Intermodal opens Chicago
terminal (ASF has 7 other drayage terminals in the
southeast)
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11/2013 – Knight Port Services closes Chicago
and Houston dray operations (still have 8 other
drayage terminals West and Gulf Coast)
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1/2014 – OTR trucking company Forward Air
buys Central States Trucking (CST founded in 1980,
has 4 terminals in Midwest)
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1/2014 – Mason Dixon Intermodal officially
rebranded to “Universal Intermodal” (Mason
Dixon name goes back to 1925)
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Demand for drayage trucking still increasing:
OTR trucking companies offering dedicated
container drayage: Old Dominion, Schneider
National Intermodal Services, Knight Port
Services, Averitt Express, Werner
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2013 – Whimsy Trucking is first in Chicago to
buy light weight 5 x 40’ two-axle 3 x 20’ tri
axle chassis with super single tires.
 Chassis weigh less and combined with day cab
tractors can haul several thousand lbs. more
weight before needing overweight permit.
 Radials – more reliable
 Low rolling resistance – better fuel economy
 Two-axle tare weight just 5,000 lbs
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Maersk recreating “Sealand” name for ocean
service within the Americas (SeaLand pioneered
the use of containerization in 1960s that we are familiar with
today)
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APL restructuring again, to better coordinate
Scottsdale, AZ office with Denver with
Detroit functions.
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OOCL moves to new integrated center in Salt
Lake City, 300 jobs
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2013 – Norfolk Southern continues to buy
properties in Englewood (to expand 63rd Street
terminal)
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7/2013 – CN opens intermodal terminals in
downtown Indianapolis (Indiana Railroad is operator)
& downtown Joliet, IL (old EJ&E yard) Both primarily
for grain going for export
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9/2013 – Village of Elwood Trustees create
“Elwood International Port Authority”
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"An 18-wheeler 2007-2010 model year clean-diesel
truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway
to put out the same mass of particulates as a single
charbroiled hamburger patty" study by University of
California-Riverside (October 26, 2012 DC Velocity)
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80,000 lbs. United States gross limit (started 1981)
97,000 lbs. Europe limit (44 tons)
103,000 lbs. Canada average limit (46.5 tons)
(western province of Alberta, Canada: 140,000 lbs./63,500 kilograms)
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107,000 lbs. Mexico limit (48.5 tons)
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Domestic and International container volumes
expected to increase modestly again for 2014
Will be continued increase in truckload-tointermodal conversion in 2014
Duplicate repair bills paid by multiple draymen for
same chassis repair?
Has decrease in total number of chassis count with
the better utilization (increased number of turns per
chassis) causing the backlog of containers when bad
weather strikes?
Jason Hilsenbeck
President
LoadMatch & Drayage.com
Naperville, IL
www.loadmatch.com = Equipment Matching
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