railroad service
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Railroad
Commentary: CSX offers the first trip compliance reporting
Jim Blaze explains the new CSX trip compliance reporting... perhaps the first step for railroads to compete more effectively with the trucking industry.
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Railroad
Commentary: Short line railroads – custom high-growth freight service
Market View commentator Jim Blaze writes about the advantages short line railroads offer to shippers.
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Railroad
Commentary: CSX beta test trip plans score card introduced
Jim Blaze writes about the competitiveness of railroads vs. trucks and the railroads' lack of interoperability.
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Railroad
Commentary: What’s a rail freight KPI, and why care?
Market Voice Jim Blaze contents that railroads are using the wrong KPIs to increase volume and capture market share from trucks.
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Railroad
Commentary: What’s in a railroad map?
As railroads cut less profitable routes, shippers should learn as much as possible about railroads plans for future service.
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Infrastructure
Commentary: Train to nowhere destroys valuable agricultural production
Ben Thrower examines the costs - in money, lost land and lost businesses - of the high-speed rail line in California.
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Railroad
Commentary: Understanding the railroads’ quarterly earnings and what else to ask…
Jim Blaze writes about earnings season for the railroads, and what investors, customers and employees should be looking and asking for in the railroads' quarterly…
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Railroad
Commentary: What are the opportunities for dimensional freight?
Market expert Jim Blaze explores what railroads need to do to capture more of the market share of oversize loads, which are essential to the…
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Economics
Flashback Fridays: an overview of U.S. railroads
Flashback Fridays features an overview of the history of U.S. railroads. A key to the development of the nation, railroads are still an important part…
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Railroad
Railroads risk market share by charging shippers excessive fees
Market expert Jim Blaze dissects the recent Surface Transportation Board hearings on demurrage and accessorial charges. Read his observations on the relationships between the railroads…
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