Chassis will no longer be provided by several major carriers due to new rules on safety.
The ‘Roadability Law’ as it is often referred to, has cause several leading shipping companies to withdraw the provision of the trailer chassis’ required in intermodal movements. Previously hauliers could collect both their designated container plus the trailer on which to haul it from the same source, needing only to provide truck and driver.
Now with the new rules being implemented several of the larger shipping lines have ceased providing chassis or skeletal trailers as they are known, citing the stringent safety and bookkeeping requirements necessary under the regulations. Atlantic Container Line (ACL), Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) and CMA CGM have all stopped providing the service already or are in the process of doing so, and more companies may follow.