In a year in which one strange event has followed another, anything seems possible and normalcy seems to be far away. When 2021 is over,…
Larry Gross, president and founder, Gross Transportation Consulting, and JOC analyst | Jul 12, 2021 10:20AM EDT Ever since the precision scheduled railroading (PSR) era…
Larry Gross, president and founder, Gross Transportation Consulting, and JOC analyst | Jun 09, 2021 11:18AM EDT While the current surge in import TEUs is…
Larry Gross, president and founder, Gross Transportation Consulting, and JOC analyst | May 19, 2021 9:26AM EDT Intermodal train speeds in 2021 have been well below…
Larry Gross, president and founder, Gross Transportation Consulting, and JOC analyst Adjustments made by carriers amid the US import surge are creating much bigger problems…
In the search for new intermodal volume, the north-south market across the US-Mexico border has been a tantalizing objective for years. With the signing of…
Peak season 2020 was very unusual. Intermodal volumes reached “peak” levels in October and then never really declined. But was 2020 so unique? Peak season…
The intermodal surge that occurred in the third quarter was of historic proportions. But not every intermodal region-pair shared equally in the bounty. A close…
Recently, Bill Burt, a railroad historian and an old colleague of mine from early days at RoadRailer, a specialty intermodal trailer, sent over a PDF…