GLG News by Rail Shipping Service Experts

As lobbyists go, the American Association of Railroads (AAR) has to get the award for chutzpah in giving such a warm welcome to the new president. Like all bureaucrats and most elected officials, Mr. Obama seems to think of rail transportation primarily as a passenger service, although he has noted...

Truck idling versus Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Return-On-Investment (ROI) got some real and negative feedback in a recently completed North Carolina State University / Volvo Truck EPA-funded study. Bottom-line is that the ROI is tough at best and from the study: “Previous avoided fuel use rates and...

Con-way's decision to revamp its regional LTL footprint and close 40 terminals is a significant move for a $4.6 billion company that has been on a go-go growth path since its inception in 1984. Con-way is usually two or three steps ahead of the rest of the LTL market, and its move to retrench must be...

  YRC Worldwide is hoping it can ride out the current credit crunch and sour freight environment to avoid bankruptcy or further erosion of customer confidence.   With about $1.19 billion in debt, the $9.6 billion trucking concern is trying to pay off long-term debt to preserve liquidity and...

    The Dakota Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroad was recently acquired by the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway.  The DM&E has for years been proposing an extension to the Wyoming Powder River Basin coal reserves.  This project, if commenced, would upgrade an...

 The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped by 0.9 percent in September, it's third straight month-over-month decline. The details are even worse. The seasonally adjusted index was just 0.8 percent above year-ago levels. September 2007...

The food, energy and Biofuels industries all heavily depend on feedstock. I agree with colleagues Mr. Moser and Mr. Timpano regarding food versus fuel, future feedstock’s, food security and sugar cane use for ethanol. After recently attending a Purdue (my alma mater) meeting wearing my Zenergy Bio Fuel...

CSX Chairman Michael Ward recently remarked on the growing opposition to coal fired utilities in the country, saying that limiting coal’s use for electricity "is probably one of the stupidest things you could do." For CSX and the other railroads, it would be a bad thing if the electric utilities turned...

The forecast models used by the industry to predict equipment sales needs a readjustment. The forecasting models included diesel prices, metal prices, industrial production, manufacturer orders and personal income / spending, but they had not used at least one major factor - financing availability -...

With LTL giant YRC Worldwide teetering, the biggest potential winner from any shutdown or wholesale closing of YRC operating units would appear to be Arkansas Best Corp., parent of ABF Freight System. At nearly $2 billion in revenue, ABC (or ABF, which makes up the lion's share of its parent's revenue)...