When it comes to prognosticating, perhaps the four most dangerous words a forecaster can utter are “this time it’s different.” If history has anything to…
In one of his final acts before his untimely passing last month, E. Hunter Harrison took an axe to the configuration of the CSX intermodal…
In his Nov. 16 tweet promoting the rollout of Tesla’s new electric semi-truck, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised, “This will blow your mind clear out…
Buried in the general favorable intermodal numbers for September from the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) was an attention-getter: revenue moves occurring in domestic…
One of the so-called truths of the intermodal era is the inevitability of the transition to container, fueled by the “2 for 1” economics of…
Something good is happening north of the US-Canada border when it comes to intermodal. The Canadian intermodal network has been bulking up as if on…
According to Mark Twain, Benjamin Disraeli — the UK prime minister in the 1860s and 1870s — once said, “There are three kinds of lies:…
Intermodal had a tough year in 2016 and weakness in the business of moving containers inland was one reason. But the pain wasn’t uniform across…
As contentious and acrimonious as the presidential campaign has been, there are at least two things upon which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agree: infrastructure…
Each calendar quarter, I calculate intermodal market share as part of my work on my monthly Intermodal Update newsletter. I normally track the percentage of…