The RCI (Fast Lane Ticket) is a special procedure for the ECT Delta and ECT Euromax terminals.
With a standard HCN Road action, you use a TAR time slot to gain access to the terminal. With RCI this works differently: you do not need to reserve a time slot, but can drive directly onto the terminal with a Fast Lane Ticket.
By submitting a complete and correct pre-notification in the HCN Road service, your driver no longer has to go to building 5 at the ECT Delta terminal. This is expected to save around 15 minutes per visit. At the ECT Euromax terminal, a driver can also continue faster.
RCI therefore makes it possible to enter the terminal faster, without needing a time slot (TAR). Below you can read how RCI relates to the standard HCN Road way of working and how to use it.
Similarities and differences between TAR and RCI
Similarity
- RCI = Fast Lane Ticket to be allowed to drive directly onto the terminal
Differences TAR (HPD2, APM2, RWG, RST) and RCI (ECT, Euromax)
- RCI = Not mandatory
- RCI = Not time-bound like a TAR/time slot
- RCI = Has no maximum quota per time slot
- RCI = Remain On Truck container must be notified in advance
- RCI = Review at the gate on organisation (EAN)
Login and pre-notification
- Navigate to Hinterland Container Notification Road to pre-notify a handling at ECT.
- Then submit a pre-notification in the usual way via the web screens or via your own interface. See in this article how to do this.
Status information
Based on the stated ETA, you will immediately receive a TAR code from ECT.
You also immediately gain insight into the status of the container based on the status icons.
Combining containers within one visit
(Un)coupling of containers is done in the usual way. Follow this guide when you want to handle multiple containers in one ECT/EMX visit.
Remain on Truck
ECT requires that containers that remain on the truck during the ECT visit — the so-called Remain on Truck-containers — must be stated in advance in HCN.
This can be done in two ways:
- Automating the submission of the Remain on Truck by your software supplier.
- Manually add the Remain on Truck container in HCN.
Follow the steps below to manually add the Remain on Truck container in HCN.
- Click Actions to the right of the visit to ECT to which you want to add a Remain on Truck container.
- Click Add Remain on Truck container.
- In the pop-up, enter the container number of the container you want to add to the visit as Remain on Truck.
- Click Save.
The container has now been added to the visit to ECT as a Remain on Truck container.
The image below shows an example: Container added as a Remain on Truck Container in Hinterland Container Notification Road.
Please ensure that the correct ETAs are entered in connection with the order of the visits.
Executing charter
When the RCI code is used at the gate, ECT also checks whether the EAN number of the organisation in the pre-notification matches the EAN number on the driver’s cargo card.
EAN number
Note: if the driver has a cargo card from an employment agency, this employment agency must be entered as the executing charter in the pre-notification in HCN Road.
The executing charter field (executing inland operator) can be completed via the HCN web screen.
This is also possible via an API system interface — please contact your software supplier for this.
You can also change the executing charter after submitting the pre-notification.
To do so, follow the steps below to edit a handling:
Click Details to the right of the handling you want to edit.
Click the Edit button at the top right of the dashboard. Here you can adjust the handling details (e.g. container number, acceptance reference, shipping line, etc.).
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