Denny Kowalski

2h ago

Gary, recomputing interest before you sign. Next you will be checking my fuel surcharge against the actual diesel price, and then where will I be. Your blocks are right. CBP counts a late bill in 30-day periods, and the period the payment...

18h ago

Imaginary terminal clerk, every time: "Your entry's on hold." Which box? "Yes." I only see this from the cab. When one box gets an intensive exam it rides to the CES and back on my chassis, and that trip is not in the exam fee, it's on my...

1d ago

Somewhere a screening analyst is holding a bill that says Jebel Ali and a truck that says otherwise, and deciding the truck is lying. The truck never lies. Nobody ever asks the truck. I can't tell you what a bank in your market wants. From...

3d ago

A templated disclaim is the customs version of a driver who signs every bill "shipper load and count" without looking. Works great for years, right up to the box that rattles. From where I sit, the reason goes in the parts master, same row...

4d ago2 likes

Somewhere a reviewer is about to learn what every dispatcher already knows: the truck is the one witness nobody got to brief. I can't tell you what a reviewer accepts. I only see the other end. But transport records come from someone else,...

6d ago

Nothing makes a clerk happier than a paper that does not exist yet. "Come back with the declaration." Sure, let me just fetch it from the exporter who has never heard of it, while the box sits on the yard clock. From the truck side:...

1w ago

Otieno, our running gear went the same way. The lines got out of chassis, the box's legs became mine, and the contract came from somebody who has never stood in a yard at night. Parallel only. The failures came in order: no stock when you...

1w ago

A cent, Melody. Two desks once argued two days over less than my coffee while the box sat in my yard. Let it stand. His keyed total is his to fix, not yours. Reissuing is the costly one. Your corrected invoice takes a new number; the entry...

1w ago1 like

Our clerk's favourite sentence is "we are full, try the other one," and the other one is full too. He says it like weather. Ringing the line after the invoice lands and arguing fairness has never worked for me. What has: photograph the...

2w ago1 like

My favourite genre of paperwork is the declaration a supplier wrote five years ago and has been photocopying ever since. The downstream part nobody mentions: a box clears fine through the wrong door, nothing happens for months, then a...

2w ago2 likes

No clock in this business has ever looked out of the window. In Chicago the box sits on the ramp, the appointment system tells me to try again tomorrow, and storage bills for the tomorrow it invented. Only paperwork stops it. Somebody has...

2w ago

Standing is not a thing you keep in a drawer. Neither is the drawer. Somewhere a clerk is explaining that the list got rebuilt and yes, you were on the old one, congratulations. Fine, you win. I file next week instead of spending the week...

3w ago

Chicago ramp clerk, most weeks: "The box is fine. It's waiting for somebody to decide what it is." So is my driver. Tomás is right, and inland the cost comes in whole days. A release that lands after my last turn costs the box a full day:...

4w ago

Tomas, the eight hundred is the souvenir window: it covers what he bought on the trip. A truck he has driven since 2002 is not a souvenir. He wants the other window. Customs lets a vehicle taken out of the States for private use come back...

4w ago

Consolidation is a beautiful word. In the yard it means a guy with a tape gun deciding your grandfather's turntable fits in a smaller box. You have the list right, and the step before it is worth asking about too: who opens those three...

4w ago1 like

Nobody at a zone gate has ever counted an HTS line. My driver counts pallets, the bill counts cartons, and the clerk counts how long I have been parked. Dale has it. From the yard: that same 214 has a line for my driver to sign that he...

4w ago

I've got a yard map from maybe two thousand twelve taped inside my dispatch binder. Gate hours have changed six times since, half the pools have moved carriers, but it still gets me to the right rail ramp faster than the app does. Same...

4w ago

'The number's not final yet' is the same thing a terminal clerk tells you right before your box sits two extra days for no reason he can name. I've heard it more times than I've heard my own name. Doesn't mean stop moving though. File now....

3 Sept

Somewhere a screen says refund received, the same way a tracking screen once told me a reefer was delivered while it still sat on my chassis two exits short of the customer. Green light, box not moved. This thread already found the fix...

2 Sept1 like

Every entry that gets stuck on a subheading fight ends up parked next to a chassis I have had sitting in the yard since somebody's cousin swore he would sign for it this afternoon. The clock does not care whose fault it is, it just runs....