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Jul 8, 2015

DOT Study * USA: Heavier US trucks won’t hurt intermodal rail

* DC - Study couldn’t conclude whether heavier trucks impact highway safety
-- A U.S. Department of Transportation study couldn’t conclude whether heavier trucks impact highway safety, but it did find they would not significantly impact intermodal conversions... Proponents for raising the weight and size restrictions on trucks have heralded the finding, despite the DOT’s claims that the evidence behind their own report proved insufficient... According to Peter M. Rogoff, undersecretary of transportation, there wasn't enough data available from crash reporting statistics to determine a vehicle's weight at the time of collision. Moreover, the DOT could not determine from the available data whether trucks, prior to a crash, were fully loaded, running overweight, at legal capacity for their axle configurations or had unevenly distributed weight... In a letter to Congress, the Coalition for Transportation Productivity, a group of 200 shippers and allied associations, urged lawmakers to reconsider the study’s findings... The group points out that, according to the DOT’s own numbers in their report, six-axle vehicles weighing 97,000 pounds and 91,000 pounds would divert $562 million and $196 million, respectively, from rail — an industry worth $70 billion... It’s a fraction of the total industry that would be overwhelmingly offset by overall freight growth over the next 25 years. Freight is projected to grow at nearly 2 percent each year, 45 percent by 2040... A longtime opponent of increasing trailer sizes, the American Association of Railroads, has declined to comment on the study’s findings since they were published in June... 
(Photo/Diagram: From the Federal Highway Administration shows the different in a five-axle versus six-axle tractor trailer. The Coalition for Transportation Productivity wants member of Congress to review data from a recent size and weight limits study and then take action to reform weight limits for six-axle trucks) Washington, DC, USA - JOC - Jul 06, 2015

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Jun 5, 2009

State of trucking * USA - Intermodal holding its own

Nashville,IN,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Jun 5, 2009: -- Though intermodal freight volumes continue to fall, experts believe this blended truck-rail service is actually holding its own quite well amid the global economic downturn – especially in the U.S., where its prospects continue to brighten... "By far the greatest weakness for intermodal right now is on the international side – volumes there are down 20 to 25%," said Larry Gross, president of Gross Transportation Consulting and senior consultant with FTR Consulting Group, in a recent conference call with reporters... Overall freight traffic on U.S. railroad lines remains way down compared to last year. For the first 20 weeks of 2009, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 5,295,843 carloads, down 19.3% from 2008, according to data tracked by the Association of American Railroads... Trailer and container shipments – intermodal's bread and butter – totaled 3,720,454 units, down 16.8%; and total volume of rail shipments topped some 562 billion ton-miles, down 18.2% from 2008...

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Aug 17, 2007

Intermodal Services * USA - Truck lines ramping up to

Growing convoys of over-the-road truck lines are adding intermodal services to overcome a slowdown in the trucking industry

Memphis,TN,USA -The Memphis Business Journal, by Einat Paz Frankel -August 10, 2007: -- ... As truck tonnage continues to drop, truck lines are adding intermodal transportation services in order to diversify their business and retain truck drivers. Multi-modal carriers rely more heavily on intermodal transportation now that over-the-road is in a slump... Large fleets, such as Swift Transportation Co., started to recognize the potential of intermodal transportation -- containers that can be hauled by trucks, trains and steamships -- as early as 2005 and recently recorded significant revenues from the intermodal segment... (Photo by MBJ - Continued recession in the housing market led to a tonnage drop of 3.2% in the second quarter of 2007 compared to 2006)

* Rail, Intermodal Fall for Week
USA -Transport Topics -16 Aug 2007: -- Rail carload and intermodal freight traffic fell from a year ago for the week ended Saturday, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday... Rail intermodal volume declined 5.1% to 237,298 trailers and containers, AAR said in its weekly report Thursday... Container volume fell 3% to 187,454 units, while trailer volume dropped 12.1% to 49,844... Rail carload traffic totaled 328,821 cars, down 2.2% from a year ago...

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