Daycos News

Earlier today we received the following email regarding a letter that was sent to TRANSCOM in reference to DPS.

Attached please find a letter sent to TRANSCOM from the services, American Moving & Storage Assoc & Household Goods Forwarders Assoc (AMSA & HHGFA) Please share with your ITOs and any one interested in Families First.
Thank you.
To view the letter in its entirety click here.…

This week we would like to introduce you to one of our five employees in our IT Department, Kirk Strauser.
Kirk started with us here at Daycos in October of 2003. Since then he’s been spending his time developing Daycos’ website and managing all of the related computer systems. Not only is he our Website Programmer, but he recently has taken on the added responsibility as our Network Administrator, updating our systems to meet our future needs. The favorite part…

Just a reminder that we will be heading off this week for the HHGFAA Families First Training in Las Vegas. If you have not registered yet, unfortunately you are out of luck. They have “sold-out” the meeting by filling all the available space in the reserved meeting room.
If you have registered for the Las Vegas meeting, we want to remind you of our invitation… to join us for a special Daycos tack-on meeting on Friday morning. No reservations are

We received the following email update from SDDC.

To CWA Users
Release of CWA 4.2 to production will be done on Friday, 16 Feb. 07, art 1530 hrs (3:30 PM) eastern. The CWA system will be unavailable from 1530 to 1630. The summary of the contents for CWA 4.2 are posted on Families First.
Thanks …

We wanted to pass along a quick reminder for our customers who are Department of State (DOS) carriers. All DOS Bill of Lading (BL) numbers must be a ten digit number that looks as such – 8612345678. Any shipments that have been issued with a BL number such as N1234567 must have that BL number cancelled and a new number requested, as these BL numbers must be submitted via paper and DOS is no longer accepting paper invoices. All DOS…

Recently, there have been some email conversations between SAT participants about the frustrations with the progress of the testing. Craig Crawford of Silver Ridge Forwarding sent this email this morning to the group, and I think Craig has done a good job of capturing the overall mood at this time. Here is his email, posted with his permission:

All,
To be perfectly clear, I am a willing participant and am happy to invest my time, money, and energy to help …

Ealier today we received the following email from Larry Briggs of SDDC, however we have been unable to locate the item on the SDDC website but have requested clarification from them on this issue.

Release of CWA 4.2 to production will be done on Wednesday, 14 Feb. 07, art 1530 hrs (3:30 PM) eastern. The CWA system will be unavailable from 1530 to 1630. The summary of the contents for CWA 4.2 are posted on Families First.
Thanks…

Chuck White from the HHGFAA just passed along this rate filing schedule for Families First Rate Filing, which was posted on PPQWEB. Notice the bolded “Note:” near the bottom

DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE PERSONAL PROPERTY SYSTEM (DPS) RATE
FILING SCHEDULE
1st Round of Rate Filing by all Qualified TSPs 3/12/07 – 3/16/07
Evaluation and Processing of Rates and Notify TSP’s 3/19/07 – 3/20/07
Customer Assistance regarding Rates 3/21/07 – 3/23/07
2nd Round of Rate Filing by all Qualified TSPs 3/26/07 …

We have received confirmation from PowerTrack that it is again the time of year for them to access and deduct their yearly user fees. According to the PowerTrack Help desk, they began assessing the fees at the first of the year and started applying the charges at the end of January. The fee is again $25 for each ID that has been created or used within 2006. The fee should be deducted from the first deposit to your account after…

We have reached the halfway point of the off-site portion of SAT testing, and have only two weeks left to go until the test is scheduled to end. Based on the number of unresolved issues still facing the DPS system, two weeks seems like a very, very short time. The off-site portion of the test has been much more difficult to coordinate than the on-site portion. With TSPs and PPSOs trying to balance their normal work duties with their testing…