The Pool of Pools
Offering Interoperability of Chassis Between Chassis Pools
Effective January 6, 2025, motor carriers that wish to lease a chassis from a specific Pool of Pools chassis provider can make this choice by booking
with their preferred provider through one of the email addresses below:
A motor carrier’s chosen chassis provider will then provide a unique booking number to the motor carrier and the motor carrier will then be billed directly by that chassis provider.
Any chassis booked directly with a chassis provider will be available for on-hire at Innovative Terminal Services located at: 950 Barracuda Street, San Pedro, California 90731. Gate hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 am – 4:30 pm (gates are closed between 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm). All chassis must be off-hired at this same location.
Motor carriers should contact their chassis provider with any questions.
Motor carriers choosing to use chassis from any other Pool of Pools location will continue to be billed under the Pool of Pools’ existing billing rules.
The "Pool of Pools" (POP) is a multi-pool agreement between the three major proprietary marine container chassis pools operating in the San Pedro Basin port complex. DCLP, TPSP and FLBP developed this agreement in response to port stakeholder desires to create greater chassis fluidity across the port complex, which is by far the largest in the United States. The POP structure delivers streamlined operations while retaining the benefits of proprietary pools, including robust competition, asset owner oversight of maintenance and repair, and service that can be tailored directly to customer needs.
The POP encompasses a combined fleet of over 32,000 marine container chassis with mutual start/stop locations covering eleven (11) major marine terminals and four (4) major rail facilities, through which the vast majority of container cargo is transported into or out of Southern California. Following initial development and the completion of a business review letter process with the United States Department of Justice, the POP began operations in March 2015, and has now been operating successfully for over nine (9) years.
Within POP operations, any chassis contributed to the DCLP, TPSP or FLBP fleet can be utilized by authorized users in all of the participating pools. POP chassis may be interchanged out or returned to any of the fifteen (15) start/stop locations. For example, a chassis interchanged at a marine terminal in Long Beach may be returned to a rail ramp in Los Angeles. Prior to the POP, chassis in different pools were segregated at facilities for use only by certain user bases, and returnable only to a portion of the facilities otherwise available to receive chassis.
The POP also provides a unique and unprecedented amount of publicly-available and regularly-updated data regarding aggregate chassis availability, usage and related metrics for the POP fleet. Please consult the "Reports" section of this website for more details.
