Daycos News

Our billing program and AccuBill have recently been updated with the IW09 changes found in the I-23 Solicitation that went into effect for International shipments with pickup dates of 10/01/09 and after.

The changes are as follows:
INT/BAG – new tariff updates (I-23)
1. Updated rate for Extra Pickup/Delivery Overseas, excluding Alaska and Hawaii to 29.10 was 14.10.
2. Updated rate for excess over 100 Miles Extra Pickup/Delivery to .20 was .10.
3. Item 513 – Fuel Surcharge (CONUS, Including …

The past year has provided many challenges in dealing with the new DPS system. However, in the end Industry and Government alike have managed to overcome the problems, and survive the first busy season under DPS. In celebration of this accomplishment, Daycos created a “Survivor DPS” t-shirt, which was distributed at the recent Annual IAM Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

The Daycos October Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here. A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:
Get Your ‘DPS Survivor’ Souvenir
DP3: One of the ‘P’s Stands for Paper
Daycos Offers Automatic Document Sending
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‘Defense Personal Property Program will create a single, paperless Joint Personal Property Program that integrates and automates all processes that support a personal property move.’ – SDDC DP3 Pamplet ‘Moving in the Right Direction’…

This quote from an early SDDC DP3 brochure demonstrates that one of the goals of the new program was to create a paperless system. While this was certainly a noble goal, and one that many TSPs would support, the results from the first year of DP3

For those of you in attendance at the International Association of Movers Convention in Orlando this week, you heard the mention of the importance of keeping open communication within the industry regarding invoicing issues in DPS. SDDC has listened to the request to allow for open communication of such issues and since June has been providing a call forum for TSP’s to bring up invoicing related DPS questions and issues for their assistance or clarification.
The call is held every…

When logging into get your invoices today, you may notice some changes to the Invoice Search section of our website. We understand that consistent reporting is key when recording your incoming revenue. We have revamped our daily reporting via our website for our billing and AccuBill customers. Aside from the page looking different, there are a number of new features that we would like to point out.
First, we would like to introduce Quick Reports. This section will be replacing…

The price of fuel was $2.58 per gallon as reported on Monday, October 5, 2009 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 10/15/09 through 11/14/09 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 1%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.08
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.08…

Since the start of DPS, invoicing Alaska shipments under the 400NG tariff has been problematic. Despite numerous patches, updates, bug fixes, every time we billed an Alaskan invoice in the DPS test or production system, the Linehaul rating was always off by a large amount.
PPSOs were apparently instructed to no longer book Alaska shipments in DPS, but we still see a trickle of Alaska invoices through our office, either due to shipments previously booked, or PPSOs not aware of…

The following DPS EDI related notice was recently sent out to TSPs:

There has been some confusion concerning the N4 requirements, depending upon whether the shipment involved CONUS or OCONUS locations. The DPS requirements are dependent upon the applicable tariff and system being used. Attached is a spreadsheet which identifies the mandatory location
information for DPS and CWA.
Power Track is in the process of updating the EDI 859 specification to reflect the DPS information per the attached spreadsheet. In …