September 10, 2019 | CP, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 9, 2019) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) announced last week that the Class Is that achieved “revenue adequacy” in 2018 were CSX, Canadian Pacific’s Soo Line Corp. and Union Pacific Railroad. A...
August 23, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, August 23, 2019) NEW YORK — If you think a currently under way Surface Transportation Board (STB) search for outside experts to rehabilitate and modernize the 30-year-old Uniform Rail Costing System (URCS) is not of significant importance to...
August 21, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, August 20, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Rail shippers will not be able to form a class action lawsuit to argue against alleged fuel surcharge price fixing, a federal appeals court ruled on August 16. A three-member panel of judges from the U.S....
August 21, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 20, 2019) U.S. Class Is as of mid-July employed 140,703 workers, down 0.46 percent since mid-June and down 4.56 percent since July 2018’s count, according to U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) data. Only one category...
July 30, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 23, 2019) U.S. Class Is as of mid-June employed 141,360 people, down 1.1 percent from mid-May’s level and down 4 percent from June 2018’s count, according to Surface Transportation Board (STB) data. Only one of six...
July 29, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, July 25, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Customers of the major U.S. railroads claim that many of the service headaches and added costs they’ve increasingly had to endure over the last three years could be avoided if they were to be made partners in...
July 29, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, STB
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, July 26, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Precision-scheduled railroading (PSR) is driving discord between railroads and their customers, a roundtable of rail shippers told the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and...
July 9, 2019 | FRA, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, July 5, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The service problems associated with precision scheduled railroading (PSR) have motivated forest products and scrap recycling shippers to press the Surface Transportation Board to renew a longstanding request...
June 27, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Argus Media, June 26, 2019) NEW YORK — Multiple scrap recycling companies operating more than 170 facilities nationwide met with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in June to request its intervention as increased fees and unreliability harm their ability...
June 25, 2019 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 21, 2019) U.S. Class Is employed 142,950 workers as of mid-May, down 0.88 percent from mid-April and down 2.76 percent compared with May 2018, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Categories that logged decreases since...
