Large Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Distraction; Confusion
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
General None Reported / Taken
Chart Or Publication; Human Factors
Taxi out from DEN ramp; instructed behind traffic taxi SA; A; A hold point. The Company ramp procedures were briefed to include the requirement to hold at the A hold point and contact Ground. We taxied as instructed but missed the hold point for A. Apparently it is very close the SA and was missed coming out of the turn from SA onto A. We contacted Ground without issue and continued with a normal flight. Having briefed the procedure we were looking for the hold point to be further up A. We were following traffic that did not stop at the hold point and were looking for the hold point to be further up A. The Ramp Pages do a good job of describing the procedure but do not show a very good depiction of its actual location.
The Reporter stated that the crew briefed the HOLD POSITION from a Company airport chart and were anticipating its location immediately upon entering Taxiway A. It was not there and the hold position was not obvious to them at any time. Another point of distraction was the four smaller aircraft taxiing ahead of them did not stop at any point leading them to believe they were not required to even though documentation said otherwise.A good friend of his was going to DEN the next day so the Reporter asked him to locate the HOLD POSITION line. He did not see it either.
A Captain briefed the taxi procedure from the DEN Freight Ramp to the runways including the A hold point; but did not see the hold point on the taxiway and suggested a better chart depiction.