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Disastrous Flooding Cuts Vancouver Off From Rail, Road Service

Disastrous Flooding Cuts Vancouver Off From Rail, Road Service Food and toilet paper have been stripped from grocery store shelves across British Columbia as panic buying follows the realization Wednesday, Nov. 17 that the previous day’s Biblical flooding means road and rail connections with Vancouver and southwestern British Columbia could be disrupted for months. There […]

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What Truckers & Railroads Are Saying About the US Economy

What Truckers & Railroads Are Saying About the US Economy They’re a measure of the goods-based economy. Freight shipment volume across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – rose 8.2% in September, compared to a year earlier, according to the Cass Freight Index. While this is still a big jump, it’s […]

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What’s Going On with Trucking and Rail?

What’s Going On with Trucking and Rail? Everything is spiking, setting off “inflationary concerns.” When consumer products companies, retailers, oil-and-gas drillers, manufacturers, and other companies complain that shipping goods within the US is confronting them with soaring costs, capacity constraints, and delays, they’re not making this up. Trucking companies and railroads – an infamously cyclical […]

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Pre-emption: How and Why Rail Companies Are Above The Law

Pre-emption: How and Why Rail Companies Are Above The Law CSX is one of the major rail companies that is profiting from the oil-by-rail boom led by North Dakota’s Bakken crude oil. On September 28th, a day that is apparently national “good neighbor day,” CSX broadcast the following message on Twitter. Which is a nice message. But CSX and the rest of the rail […]

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