September 18, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains.com, September 18, 2024) At the opening of today’s Surface Transportation Board hearing on the lack of rail freight volume growth, Vice Chair Karen Hedlund said she was still struck by what she heard the day before from analysts and shippers and Class...
August 27, 2024 | News, STB, Top News
Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Robert Primus has called a public hearing on September 16 and 17 to gather information about how the freight rail industry has grown and intends to grow in the future. STB is the federal agency charged with economic...
August 16, 2024 | Headlines, Long Trains, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains.com, August 15, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board will hear from more than three dozen participants during its two-day hearing next month regarding recent trends and strategies for growth in freight railroad traffic. The hearing, set to begin at...
July 23, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains.com, July 23, 2024) In the west, Union Pacific has 146 more engineers and conductors than a year ago and BNSF Railway has added 57 engineers and conductors, according to labor data provided to the Surface Transportation Board last month. As of June,...
July 17, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: The Load Star, July 16, 2024) Robert Primus, the new chairman of the US Surface Transportation Board (STB), has called in the CEOs of the North American Class I rail carriers to discuss the decline of rail traffic and how to revive it. Citing a 28% decline in...
May 17, 2024 | CN, CSX, Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, May 16, 2024) Canadian National, CSX, and Union Pacific last week asked a federal appeals court to set aside the Surface Transportation Board’s new reciprocal switching rule, which will allow sole-served shippers in terminal areas to request...
May 15, 2024 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Surface Transportation Board press release, May 13, 2024) President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has designated Robert E. Primus Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board effective May 11, 2024. Chairman Primus is serving in his second term, following his...
May 13, 2024 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 13, 2024) On May 10, Martin Oberman retired from the Surface Transportation Board (STB) as chairman. On the same day, the wheels were set in motion to choose the board’s next chair. President Joe Biden intends to nominate STB...
May 9, 2024 | Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains.com, May 7, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board’s reciprocal switching rule for inadequate rail service is a “missed opportunity,” the National Industrial Transportation League says. The final rule, adopted last week, is designed to incentivize...
