The industry is being transformed by its adoption of the Precision Scheduled Railroading philosophy. Traffic is down thus far in 2019, but is a foundation…
US domestic intermodal volume was down 6% year over year during the first half of 2019 and down 7.7% in the second quarter. Photo credit:…
The US Midwest is a major battleground for North American ports. This great concentration of population and commerce lies far from the nation’s coasts and…
Several weeks ago, at an annual corporate retreat for an intermodal marketing company (IMC), sales reps from each of their three major Class I carriers…
On March 2, 2018, at 5:50 a.m., President Donald Trump tweeted, “When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually…
After experiencing the disruption caused by the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate in 2018, US shippers and truckers could be forgiven if they are looking…
In recent months, the pace of growth in intermodal domestic container loadings has been slowing. But the top-line figure has masked a significant divergence in…
Rampant port terminal congestion, particularly in the key ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continues as of this writing, and the contagion is spreading inland. The…
As a new year for US transportation begins, the question of what’s to come inevitably comes to the fore. Forintermodal, 2018 was a good year, the…
The performance of the North American intermodal sector often is dramatically affected by exterior market forces. That was certainly the case in late 2017 when…