All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transportation

The current renaissance for the railroad industry began in 2004 when railroad traffic exploded (double digit gains in some key traffic segments) and freight rates were unlocked and allowed to seek a market level. For the railroad companies, the exceptional profit gains since 2005 have been almost exclusively...

Manditory blending of 500 million gallons of biodiesel in 2009 will keep diesel pricing pressures high. There may be a biodiesel shortage in the US in 2009.

The proposed commercial alliance of British Airways, Iberia and American - lets call it BAAABI represents a strong consolidation on the most lucrative part of the Transatlantic market - UK-USA. Virgin Atlantic and its chairman have been waging a "BA-AA No Way" battle for years. Now its very intense....

Elisabeth Rosenthal in Rome reported in the August 30-31 issue of the International Herald Tribune that Europeans are willing to pay the current high cost of driving. High fuel prices alone may not deter drivers. Some people are driving less and gasoline purchases in Italy have fallen by 10% from a...

One of the often-cited risks in implementation of Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) technology has been Diesel Engine Fluid (DEF) - a.k.a. Urea - availability. That has been covered in past GLG articles - and continues to move along better than expected. The next major issues include whether truck-buyers...

Clifford Krauss reported in the August 30 issue of the New York Times that drivers in Utah pay the equivalent of 87 cents/gallon for transportation fuel. Utah is the first state in the U.S. with broad consumer interest in compressed natural gas (CNG) cars but Oklahoma is catching up. Drivers search...

 The closely watched American Trucking Associations' Truck Tonnage Index jumped by 5.4 percent in June, the eighth straight month of an increase. It's the largest monthly gain since January of 2005. But that streak suddenly ended with a 0.3 percent drop in the index in July

  When C.W. Johnson Xpress, a Louisville, Ky.-based truckload carrier closed in mid-August, its chairman Charlie Johnson lashed out at Louisville and federal officials for failing to aid him. Johnson's company was the beneficiary of millions of dollars in federal grants to aid underprivileged persons...

Do not let the price of diesel down for the 6th straight week, a first half of the year capacity loss of probably a 100,000 tractors, North American Truck production numbers of only 69,000, GDP growth of 3.3% and lower than expected jobless claims make anyone think that we should expect much of the...

The keys to success in the logistics chain are relationships, information technology, operational productivity and managing costs. The dray cost structure is being pressured with not only the 25%+ ($35 container plus $15 infrastructure) surcharge to fund those programs, but also with security (TWIC)...