March 16, 2023 | Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 13, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board has named Richard Erstad and James (Leggett) Kitchin to the board’s Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council, the board announced Friday. Full story: Trains Magazine
March 8, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers
(Source: Farm News Media, March 7, 2023) So far this year, average weekly unfilled grain car orders one or more days overdue have numbered over 16,000 a week — the highest rate recorded since the data series began in 2017, according to AFBF Economist Daniel Munch....
February 16, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, February 15, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Feb. 14 denied “as moot” the petition for an emergency service order by Foster Poultry Farms (Foster Farms), which in late 2022 said there had been a “substantial, measurable...
January 18, 2023 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, Ports, PSR, Shippers, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, January 16, 2023) The near-term future of freight rail might be one marked by collaboration, whether that’s through private or public partnerships among other supply chain stakeholders or between the railroads themselves as they compete against...
January 17, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Bloomberg News, January 16, 2023) Union Pacific Corp and poultry producer Foster Farms say enough corn shipments have been made to replenish feed stocks after delayed trains in recent months caused inventories to drop to critical levels. Full story: The...
January 4, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, January 3, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board wants Union Pacific to address the service issues raised by UP customer Foster Poultry Farms in California. Full story: Freight Waves
January 4, 2023 | Headlines, Ports, Shippers
(Source: CNBC, January 3, 2023) Nearly a third of logistics managers at major companies and trade groups say they do not know how much trade they would return to the West Coast once an International Longshore and Warehouse Union, or ILWU, labor deal is reached,...
January 3, 2023 | Headlines, Shippers, UP
(Source: Schneider press release, January 2, 2023) Schneider, a premier multimodal provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services, completed the transition of its western rail operations to Union Pacific Railroad, making it the largest company driver...
December 21, 2022 | Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Associated Press, December 21, 2022) Shippers are praising proposed changes that federal regulators have approved to the system used to dispute rates railroads charge, aiming to update a system that is so costly and cumbersome it is little used. Full story:...
December 15, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, Unions, UP
(Source: Railfan & Railroad Magazine, December 14, 2022) Shippers, railroaders and the federal board that oversees the rail industry blasted Union Pacific during a two-day hearing in Washington on December 13 and 14, over the Class I’s increased use of traffic...
