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by Tom Moore on May 7, 2018 8:00:00 PM
We often talk about labor constraints, but there are many infrastructure bottlenecks, such as in this email the last year – the aging locks on the inland waterways or pipelines under capacity. A constraint just surfaced – very large crude carriers ...
by Tom Moore on Apr 23, 2018 8:00:00 PM
I’ve been asked recently if CPG companies will be able to increase their prices as supply-chain costs increase. The answer is… I’ve been asked recently if CPG companies will be able to increase their prices as supply-chain costs increase. The answer ...
by Tom Moore on Apr 16, 2018 8:00:00 PM
News from Canada tells a sad story, and it is hurting the US too: Canadian grain shippers can’t get rail cars for weeks Halliburton blames Canadian National…for halting new shipments of fracking sand out of Wisconsin and Minnesota Degradation of ...
by Tom Moore on Apr 2, 2018 8:00:00 PM
The NLRB had historically defined an employer as somebody who could hire and fire workers. The previous administration had “expannnnded” that definition to, for example, companies that employed 3P3PLs This was reversed when this administration put a ...
by Tom Moore on Mar 19, 2018 8:00:00 PM
Our Will Cotten was at the Food Shippers Conference last week, where many attendees focused on truck capacity shortages. Their solution set seems to be: Make freight more enticing – offer drop trailers to help with hours of service, etc. Fix current ...
by Tom Moore on Mar 12, 2018 8:00:00 PM
The International Energy Agency forecasts that the U.S. will overtake Russia to become the worlds… The International Energy Agency forecasts that the U.S. will overtake Russia to become the world’s largest oil producer by 2023. Not so fast, says an ...
by Tom Moore on Mar 5, 2018 7:00:00 PM
Because tax is a dirty word, the trucking industry is proposing a fuel user fee to pay for infrastructure improvements. Class 8 truck orders were up 76% in February. CSX is seeing benefits from its “precision railroading”: CSX’s new CEO indicated he ...
by Tom Moore on Feb 26, 2018 7:00:00 PM
In good times, my conjecture is that there is… In good times, my conjecture is that there is… no such thing as a shipper carrier partnership. Think about it when they have a choice: Do carriers accept a lower-paying load from a favored “partner” ...
by Tom Moore on Feb 20, 2018 7:00:00 PM
Hard to believe, but it is often cheaper to ship a parcel from China to a US address than from another state. A vendor in New Jersey showed it cost him $6.30 to ship a parcel that cost a Chinese shipper a mere $1.30. I have experienced something ...
by Tom Moore on Feb 16, 2018 2:34:00 PM
Rail efficiency is up and oil is expected to be $70 At Warren Buffet’s railroad BNSF, over the past 2 years, revenues are down 14% while profits are only down 7%, suggesting better margins and increased productivity. Warren claims, “Price ...
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