Intermodal vs Over the road use in 2013
Intermodal rail use has seen a huge increase in volume and traffic. One such example is BNSF Railway setting an unprecedented $4.3 billion spending budget. Other big players such as CSX are not lagging behind. In 2011 freight railroads spent $20 billion in upgrades including the purchase of more rail cars to help meet capacity […]
Intermodal Rail Setting New Records
As shippers look for alternate ways to meet the ever tightening capacity market of available trucks intermodal rail has grown in ways not ever seen in history. Union Pacific and FEC rail lines are almost always running at capacity. Railroad companies such as CSX and BNSF are at the forefront of this market. BNSF has alotted […]
LTL shipments in 2012
Truck tonnage has fallen almost 1 percent in May from the figured reported in April. This reflects a slowing economy not a stalled one which was the major worry across the land. Not all the reports coming out are bad as a matter of fact the freight tonnage index was almost 4 percent higher than […]