US intermodal picking up steam as trucking woes continue
After a long trough of sluggish performance, US intermodal traffic is growing, and the market ...
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The largest US rail carrier received heavy criticism at a two-day hearing in Washington this week about its excessive use of embargoes.
Executives of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) and shipper and labour representatives laid into the top brass of Union Pacific (UP), accusing the carrier of failing to meet the ’common carrier obligation’.
This year, UP has levied more than 1,000 embargoes on freight, more than all the other Class I railways combined.
Shippers who testified at the hearing and STB officials ...
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