Daycos News

Please note that our office will be closed on Monday, January 1st due to the New Years Holiday. Our regular office hours will resume on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007. We thank you for your continued patronage and look forward to working with you in the New Year!
Have a safe and happy holiday!

This year Daycos kicked off the holiday season a little early, as we held our annual Christmas Party on Friday, December 15th. The festivities took place out at Fair Play Golf Course, where there were 97 employees, spouses, and children who took time to enjoy dinner and drinks together. There were also 34 eager children who were anxiously waiting to see if Santa would make his annual stop at the party again this year.

We have had several customers questioning the applicability of fumigation charges. We have been researching this charge and have learned through correspondence with Chuck White of HHGFAA, that “at this time it is SDDC’s policy that fumigation of lift vans to bring them into compliance is NOT a billable pass-through.” Chuck also advised that they have been working with SDDC regarding this charge but it has been forwarded to Transcom for comment and action.…

Today SDDC posted in the “What’s New” section of their web site the Federal Register Notice regarding the mandatory requirement for TSP’s to provide Full Replacement Value (FRV) coverage. Included in the notice are effective dates and guidelines regarding implementation.
As well, there were two additional posts, one containing the Federal Register notice published December 15, 2006 and a third post containing proposed procedures for claims with FRV. You can find all posts in their entirety here….

We just wanted to remind everyone that on Monday, December 25th, the Daycos office will be closed due to the Christmas Holiday. Normal office hours will resume on Tuesday, December 26th.
We thank you for your business and wish you a fun and safe holiday!…

SDDC recently posted a message in the “What’s New” section of their website regarding unpacking services for Unaccompanied Baggage (UB) shipments. The message outlines the requirements necessary for the applicability and billing of the unpacking charges. You can read the full message here….

This year at Daycos our employees have taken it upon themselves to make us one of the most festive offices in Norfolk, Nebraska. It all started with a little friendly Decorating Challenge from the Customer Support Department to the Production and IT Departments to see who could make their areas the most festive for the Christmas Season this year. As we are an office that is always looking for an excuse to have treats to eat, it was decided that…

Sue Fuchtman of our office recently had the opportunity to attend meetings with representatives of HHGFAA, Mr. Wohlstetter as well as a handful of others from the TSP community. Below are excerpts of her notes and comments from the meetings.

For those carriers who received the November 1st letter from GSA regarding Notice Of Overcharge for charges billed and paid on Code 5, J and T shipments dealing with port congestion and/or port security and/or war risk – the following …

We have updated our system to reflect the recently released tariff updates as noted below.
Change to DW06, effective 11-01-06 (D-11)…
1. On shipments involving SIT, changed the rule that 10% of the applicable sit valuation charges will be based on the TSP’s SIT charges and no longer on the applicable SIT rate provided in item 424 of the D-11.
2. With the change to Item 415, deleted Additional Shipment Charges, from the list of those items excluded from the

This morning we received the following email from SDDC regarding an upcoming software release to CWA.

All,
This email is being sent to notify you that CWA Software Release 4.1 will be deployed on December 7. At this time CWA will be down from 1500 to 1600 EST.
CWA Software Release 4.1 contains hot fixes from the CWA Software Release 4.0 deployment. There are 2 SCRs that are included in the hot fixes:
SCR 1 – When clicking on the …