Daycos News

Last Friday, SDDC announced that the DPS rate filing schedule for the upcoming year. Round 1 will be March 10-20, 2010 and Round 2 will be March 29-April 2, 2010. You can view the entire message on SDDC’s website.

There are a couple of other resources posted that may be of interest as well.
• They have also posted a Rate Filing Overview (pdf) containing an overview of the rate filing process, instructions with screen shots, and frequently asked questions

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The Daycos January Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here. A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:
SDDC Makes 400NG Rates More Accessible
Santa Visits Daycos
Daycos AccuBill Guide Updated
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Late last month, SDDC posted an Excel spreadsheet containing the 2010 400NG baseline rates to their website. It was the first time the rates were posted by SDDC, instead of provided by AMSA, but the real difference was not who supplied the rates, but how they were supplied.
SDDC posted the rates on their website, in a publicly accessible document formatted in Excel. It is likely this method and format was chosen to make it easier to be viewed by…

During their recent Annual Meeting in Orlando, the International Association of Movers conducted a series of knowledge lab sessions on various topics. During one of the sessions, Chuck White from IAM, CJ Dabo from Interstate, and I participated in a panel discussion on the topic of DPS and DPS Workarounds. IAM has recently posted videos of all the knowledge lab sessions online, including the DPS session.
You can view the video of the DPS knowledge lab session below:

DPS Work-Arounds…

The price of fuel was $2.80 per gallon as reported on Monday, January 4, 2010 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 1/15/10 through 2/14/10 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 3%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.29
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.29…