What's with all the axles?

"They took our jerbs!"

 

the piece of #### teamsters and the rail roads would never allow that

 

Guess nothing is made here anymore.......

Containers suck.

 

And the problem is not the extra cost in trucking, it's that they have to pay for the same amount of the ocean voyage for that much less popcorn. The only way around it is to re-load it at the port, and then you deal with union rules and costs related to the transfer.

 

Do you get paid double?

 

So a funny side to that. In 2012/2013 we were balls to the wall busy with beans for export from Sept. to Feb., 99% of the loads I ran during those 6 months were container loads of beans for export. The following year, it suddenly tapered off, the brokers/forwarders and others tried to save money, they were shipping boxcars loaded with 200K of bagged or tote beans to Houston, Long Beach and Oakland or shipping 44K of beans in totes on OTR trucks to the same ports. Then, it was unloaded, warehoused, put on a container and exported. They thought they would save money and cut out the railroad (boxcars cheaper than container on flatcar) middle man. Yeah, well, then they found out how much the unions charge to cross dock. Beginning in 2016, it started to pick back up, the exporters/forwarders who could figure a cheap warehouse to work with still do it, but the rest have switched back. Although, this year is looking very lean.

 

no problem....

 

Well let’s talk train, Michigan train.

11 axles

gross max 154,000

better for the roads than 5 axle 80,000 gross trucks.

our roads are bad because of politics and the need to give more money to teachers, some are making $100k a year now.

 

Wouldn't a butt refer stink just a bit?

 

Don't you think the weather plays a part in road deterioration.