railroad service metrics

Peak season: Let the chaos commence

Freight continues to roll in amid capacity shortages

Freight markets have entered their second year of extreme dislocation, brought on by record consumer spending and a transportation network that doesn’t have the labor or equipment to fill the need.

A lack of openings on ocean sailing schedules, ships waiting longer to berth at the ports and delays unloading the freight once it has landed are some of the front-end issues facing the transportation industry. Once freight is routed inland, a chicken-and-egg scenario is playing out between...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/peak-season-let-the-chaos-commence

FreightWaves Classics: Fallen Flags – Southern Pacific Railroad

There are many people interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. They are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes those companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.

This FreightWaves Classics article provides an overview of the Southern Pacific (reporting mark SP) Railroad, which was one of America’s most successful and widely recognized railroads. The Southern...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-fallen-flags-southern-pacific-railroad

Cargill urging regulators to seek last-mile metrics from railroads (with video)

Responding to pressure to be more transparent about their service performance following the major railroad mergers of the 1990s, the freight railroads began providing shippers and regulators weekly data on metrics such as rail car velocity and terminal dwell times.

But one measure that they haven’t been providing, asserts an executive at one of the country’s largest agribusiness companies, is how well they’ve been performing against the promise of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR), an...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargill-urging-regulators-to-seek-last-mile-metrics-from-railroads-with-video