Chassis Properties

Select this checkbox to include the chassis/cassettes used by the internal trucks in the Prime Route calculation.

Unselect this checkbox to exclude the external chassis (line/road) from the Prime Route calculation and to prevent it from being evicted from the Transfer Zone.

Select the check box if the chassis type cannot receive more than one container. For example, if you have a 40’ chassis that can accept a 40' container but cannot accept two 20' containers, you should select the Single Container Only check box for that equipment type.

If the check box is not selected, it indicates that the chassis can accept more than one container.

Select the check box if this is a tri-axle chassis type.

Select the check box if this equipment type is a bomb cart.

If you use bomb carts at your site that are not uniquely  defined in N4, you must either uniquely identify and define every bomb cart in N4, or you must create a single Equipment Type to represent all bomb carts at your site.

N4 does not support a mixed fleet where some bomb carts are uniquely identified in N4 while others are not. If all the bomb carts at your site are not defined in N4, you must add one and only one Equipment Type with General Class = Chassis and the Bomb Cart check box selected.

For the bomb cart equipment type, you can specify the allowed container lengths for the bomb carts and also the Usable Slots and their corresponding labels.

Select the check box if this equipment type is for cassettes.

If you are defining an equipment type for a bomb cart or cassette, then on the Chassis tab select the Bomb Cart or Cassette check box, accordingly. If you select the Cassette check box, N4 automatically clears the Has Wheels check box on the Properties tab. Likewise, if you clear the Has Wheels check box, N4 automatically selects the Cassette check box.

Select one of the following options if you want to enable or disable recording of events for this equipment type:

• -- (No value selected): N4 records all the events for this equipment type.

• All: N4 records all the events for this equipment type.

• None: N4 does not record any events for this equipment type.

You can use this field to disable event recording for all the terminal owned equipment. For example, if you have terminal owned bomb carts that you do not want to track individually and therefore do not want to track the events recorded for these bomb carts, you can set this field to None to stop all event recording for this equipment type.

Enter the number of twenty foot equivalents (TEUs) the chassis can carry where 1 represents 20 and 2 can represent either a single 40' container or two 20' containers. Therefore, even if a 40' chassis cannot carry two 20' containers (the Single Container Only check box is selected for the chassis type) the TEU for the chassis type is still 2 to represent the single 40' container.

N4 does not validate this field in relation to any other field on this form.

Allowed Lengths (Select all the check boxes that apply to the Chassis Type.)

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 20' containers.

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 40' containers.

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 45' containers.

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 48' containers.

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 53' containers.

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 24' containers.

Select the check box if the chassis can accept 30' containers.

Usable Slots

N4 enables these check boxes only if you have selected at least one of the following check boxes in the Allowed Lengths area: Accepts 20', Accepts 24'.

These represent the slot positions on the carriage and by default are labeled as 1, 3, and 5. However, you can use the corresponding text field to specify a user-friendly label for each of these slots on a carriage.