AI for drayage companies, tested on per diem disputes and container bills you already closed.

The interchange terms are published. The Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement, administered by the Intermodal Association of North America, is the rulebook a signatory carrier works under. Its edition effective June 18, 2026 sets the shared terms, and each equipment provider adds an addendum built from an approved template: when free time starts, how long it runs, how weekends, holidays and unroadworthy equipment adjust it, and how invoice disputes proceed. A provider owes you 14 calendar days' written notice of a change, effective no sooner than 30 calendar days from that notice, so last spring's invoice may rest on last spring's addendum.

Every handoff leaves a receipt. Section D.2 calls for an Equipment Interchange Receipt, or its electronic equivalent, at each interchange of a chassis or container. Each party may have a copy at no charge, and where date-stamped images record the equipment's condition, they stay available to each party for a year. Those receipts already sit in your closed files, which gives a reviewer something firm to hold a draft against.

Providers keep their own count. Section E.1.f has a provider tell each carrier electronically, at least once a month, what equipment its books show out under that carrier's SCAC, by equipment number and interchange date. The notice is information only, and a mistake in it changes nobody's obligations. Lay that file beside your gate records and you have two versions of where a box has been before anyone has disputed anything.

Terminals log your intent too. The Port of Virginia's PRO-PASS FAQ, revised August 11, 2026, sorts a visit by move type, such as Pick Import, Drop Empty or Drop Dray, and by status, such as validated, trouble or missed. Each hourly slot has a 30-minute grace period on either side, and a missed reservation is recorded against both the truck and the trucking company. Other ports use other systems and other words for the same events, which is why this test runs on your own paper.

The later cards come from the same desk. At its container terminals, Port Houston asks for a truck plate registered in its system before arrival, a valid TWIC at secure entry points and a UIIA-approved SCAC. IANA's Intermodal Driver Database confirms a driver is active under a carrier's SCAC at specific intermodal facilities. Checks like those sit behind the terminal access card above, and delivery orders feed the two jobs you'd start with.

What the test stays out of. California's Labor Commissioner publishes port drayage motor carriers with unsatisfied final judgments, tax assessments or tax liens, updating the list by the fifth of each month, and a customer of a listed carrier shares liability for amounts found due on services obtained after the listing date. Worker classification and that list are questions for your counsel, and nothing on this page is legal advice. The proof of concept works only on copies. It never touches your TMS, a terminal portal, a live invoice or a live dispute, never decides whether a charge is valid, never sends a dispute and never changes an invoice. A person on your team sends every dispute and resolves every billing difference.