Surface Transportation Board adopts rule to improve data collected from freight railroads

A photograph of a Union Pacific train pulling double stacked intermodal containers.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted a final rule that modifies what data the board collects from the waybill samples of the U.S. freight railroads.

A waybill consists of shipping instructions or a bill-of-lading contract, and it includes data such as originating and terminating freight stations, the railroads involved in a movement, interchanges, commodity, and freight revenue.

The Board, transportation law firms, consultants and others rely on waybill sample data to help with rate...

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