About This Site
Northeast Freight Time is about how time is measured, billed and disputed in freight — detention, dwell, demurrage, and the intervals nobody has defined.
Who it is for
A dispatcher, a transport manager at a shipper, the owner of a small fleet, a broker. Someone who argues about time every week, knows detention invoices are paid roughly half the time, and has never seen the federal sources that describe any of it. For broader transportation context, see U.S. Department of Transportation.
Not a buyer's guide. The site does not review transport management systems, and the tools are rarely the constraint.
Editorial approach
The site explains public rules, operating practices and published evidence without claiming an individual byline that is not documented in this archive.
About this domain
This domain belonged to the Northeast Alliance for Rail, previously the Business Alliance for Northeast Mobility — a coalition of more than fifty business, civic and planning organisations advocating for passenger rail investment in the Northeast Megaregion.
Between 2010 and 2016 it published thirty-six substantial pieces on Northeast Corridor policy, alongside primary documents including Amtrak's NEC Master Plan final report. Authors included Dan Schned, Jeremy Steinemann and Matthew Rao.
That work is preserved at /archive/ rather than removed. It is cited by congressional press releases and university publications, the coalition's later domain is now parked, and this is the last copy under anyone's control. Removing it to make room for a new project would have destroyed a public record for no gain.
The current site is a different subject on the same domain, and the connection is not accidental: this was a Northeast business coalition about the region's transport corridor, and freight logistics on that corridor is the adjacent room.
What this site will not do
Give legal advice. It explains how rules are constructed and what to ask counsel. Anything with real money attached needs a lawyer.
Review software. Applications change faster than an article's useful life, and the comparisons are written by people selling one of them.
Quote industry-wide figures as fact. The regulator says little public data exists, and anyone stating a confident national detention number is going past what the government believes is known.
Or take a side. Carriers' and receivers' grievances are both accurate, and both describe the same missing sentence in a contract.
What it will do
Name and date every federal source. Label industry figures as self-reported, with their year and population. Say when a recommendation is reasoning rather than evidence — which is often.
The standards are on the method page, and errors are logged on corrections.