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For the first time in years, truckers face cost increases. New hours-of-service regulations took effect January 4, the first change since 1939, and the effective reduction in capacity is driving […]

Think you have an inferiority complex? Try being Union Pacific's Fort Worth-El Paso manifest. Watch the intermodals fly by while you cool your heels in sidings--that's your typical day. If […]

So the Surface Transportation Board has dusted its hands of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger of 1996, saying competition is healthy with just two Class 1 railroads in the Western […]

We have to be on the Oak Point Link by 7:15," says Canadian Pacific conductor Jim Lettis. Timing is everything. If his train doesn't make that window, three or four […]

Before the current reexamination of its merger rules, the Surface Transportation Board's policy was to preserve existing competition, not to improve the posture of any competitor. The 1996 Union Pacific-Southern […]

Is this ever a confusing subject: Are the railroads doing well, or poorly? Are they making adequate financial returns or not? Is traffic growing or shrinking? Getting the answer is […]