Yard Demurrage Clerk

A typical day tends to involve equipment-dwell review, charge calculation, billing preparation, and the steady cadence of dispute resolution — pulling yard-dwell reports, applying tariff or contract terms to compute charges, generating bills, fielding customer disputes that come back. Charges captured and disputes resolved are the operating measures.

The friction often lies in the data quality of yard-tracking systems — gate moves, in-yard records, and customer-pickup events all have to be captured accurately for charges to be defensible. Variance across employers is real: Class I railroads, intermodal terminals, and port operations each run with different yard-tracking systems and demurrage tariffs.

This work tends to fit folks who enjoy operational detail and don't mind the adversarial undertone that demurrage work carries. Transportation-operations credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the steady cadence of customer pushback on demurrage charges, requiring even-tempered phone presence, and the modest pay at the clerk level balanced by clear progression into broader yard-operations or transportation-accounting roles.