Container chassis

They are characteristically longer and have lower deck height then standard chassis, ideal for transporting constantly shifting payloads.

Firstly, containers are commonly stored on chassis as a single mounted unit at rail yards and depots–such terminals are known as "wheeled" facilities.

Secondly, steamship lines offer a service called ″carrier haulage″ or ″store door delivery″, whereby they arrange the drayage of a customer’s container.

The steamship line hires a local trucking company and pays the pool for the chassis usage.

[7]: 26 [8][9] This means that at wheeled facilities, containers are mounted onto chassis selected by the steamship line before the trucker arrives to pickup.

Long dwell times mean less free chassis on-site at ports and rail ramps.

A semi-tractor hauling a bare chassis
40 foot container on a 40 foot container chassis
A port crane lifts a container from a ship to a chassis for road transport.
Twistlocks.
Chassis can be stacked to reduce parking space.
A truck hauling a bomb cart, which are used by dockworkers to shuttle containers within a port . They have side panels instead of twistlocks which allows crane operators to quickly place containers on them to hasten the unloading process.
Bare container chassis parked at an intermodal facility.
A stacking tower for container chassis in Japan
An APL 20-foot container and chassis at a loading dock .