GLG News by Rail Shipping Service Users

The analysis of our colleagues gives us a good look at the expense side of the YRC segment, but how about the freight demand versus availability capacity side? This raises the real question of “what the right amount of capacity” for the foreseeable future? Then who is better able to address it?

ABF Freight said in a recent press conference that they will only buy Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) technology for 2010. All US manufacturers will be going with SCR with the exception of Navistar. They are utilizing advanced Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) along with emissions trading. In the world...

Truck registrations are important to contrast against freight predictions for planning purposes by shippers, transport companies, industry suppliers, investors and other interested parties. These numbers tell how the trucking companies are planning for the near future. Last month, we authored an article...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are down about 40% from a year ago. The Dow Transports are down 25%. In spite of this, there are some transport companies doing OK as noted in the source article - and deserve some comments as to why - and cautions….

The Mexican cross-border pilot program is slipping into nowhere land - and it will continue to cost us money. Nobody says much about the program with our number one trading partner - Canada. They certainly do about our number two partner - Mexico. But it is not about business - it’s politics!

    The most recent Surface Transportation Board Rate Case filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) against the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for coal transportation from the Powder River Basin to the Muskogee coal plant actually shows the attractiveness of this move to the...

    Another coal-transporting utility has filed a Rate Case at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) alleging excessive rates for coal transportation.  This most recent case was filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) against the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for coal...

    The suit alleges four of the Class I Railroads violated Federal antitrust laws with respect to fuel surcharge.  The four Class I Railroads in the suit are CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad.  The time period is July 2003 through June 20...

Federal dollars are available for highway spending. However, many states are not able to come up with the matching funds necessary to utilize this funding.

As more carriers leave the marketplace, a less competitive landscape is the result. Once the economy rebounds, and volumes begin to increase, a less competitive marketplace will lead to higher rates.