I was saddened several weeks ago to hear the news of the major restructuring and downsizing of Norfolk Southern’s Triple Crown Services, the sole remaining…
A multitude of panelists at the FTR Annual Conference once again tried to peek over the horizon to evaluate the future of freight. For me,…
Head south on Interstate 75 from Toledo and exit west onto Deshler Road in North Baltimore. As you head through the fields, you’ll see what…
We’ve all seen the warning on the passenger side mirror of our cars: “Caution, objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” It stands alongside…
According to the writer Jimmy Breslin, immortal baseball manager Casey Stengel is reputed to have uttered, “Can’t anybody around here play this game,” in response…
Shippers are experiencing a period of relative tranquility on the trucking front. Although contract rates have been rising because of cost pressures such as increasing…
The Queen of the Skies is fading away. The Boeing 747, the original widebody jet that has, according to Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine, “transported…
It’s a well-established axiom in the intermodal world that the drayage carrier, forever doomed to be squeezed by other, larger and more powerful interests in…