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The Daycos February Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here. A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:
Updated DPS Tariffs Reviewed
Daycos Introduces First Webcast
DPS Shipment Statistics: A Year in Review
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In preparation of the upcoming DPS rate filing, the DPS 400NG tariff and the International Tender have been updated for the 2010 rate cycle and published on the SDDC website. Daycos has reviewed the tariffs, and we have identified some areas which have changed.
Note: This article is not intended to be a comprehensive list of changes; it merely highlights some of the many changes in the updated tariffs. TSPs should thoroughly and completely read the updated tariffs prior to…

PowerTrack has posted the following message to their portal to inform users of the upcoming changes to their site.

New Look, Same Service
We are excited to announce that on February 22, 2010, you will see some changes to screens within PowerTrack. As you may be aware, PowerTrack has become Syncada from Visa. As a result, many screens will now display the U.S. Bank and Syncada from Visa logos.
You can still process invoices and make payments as you always

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The DPS 400NG-2010 Tariff and DPS International Tender-2010 have been posted to the SDDC website. Judging by the amount of red ink contained in each of the documents, there are a lot of changes which TSPs need to be aware of before the upcoming rate filing.
Daycos is reviewing the updated tariffs and we will provide some comments later concerning some of the changes.

During recent DPS invoicing conference calls, there has been some discussion of the applicability date of the fuel surcharge. We have always applied the fuel surcharge based on the date of the service, but we have noticed the DPS rating engine is applying the fuel surcharge for linehaul service based on the original pickup date, even if the shipment was placed in origin SIT. It was a minor difference, but one we asked SDDC to clarify, since the TR-12…

The price of fuel was $2.78 per gallon as reported on Monday, February 1, 2010 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 2/15/10 through 3/14/10 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 3%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.28
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.28

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

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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: Read more