3 weeks ago in Berea Ohio I saw on a CSX Intermodal Train 5 CSX Containers that said on the side of them |CSX| How Tommorow Moves. These are new. Where the word CSX is on the container right and left of that are lines going up and down. To the left of CSX is the saying, How Tommorow Moves. I think there the best looking containers ever produced. Has anyone else seen these containers I’m talking about?
No, I’ve seen the older ones. I though someone said that CSX was part of some container partnership, but I may be wrong.
CSX previously owned SeaLand Container lines and their terminals. The shipping portion of the business was sold to Maersk (sp) Lines about the time of the ConRail aquisition. The Terminal’s business was sold off 3 or 4 years ago.
I saw those containers on a Television commercial for CSX. Very good looking paint job. It looks almost to good to be put on a container that is going to get beat up fairly quick.
Have yet to notice one but I will keep an eye out.
I just seen the same commercle 5 mins ago they are nice looking containers.
Yes, I’ve seen them (mentioned it in the thread about CSX’s recent television ads). They’re sharp–same colors as CSX’s locomotives and box cars. However, they aren’t going to stay pristine-looking even as long as the locomotives will.
As to other sharp-looking containers, I like the new metallic green ones that EMP and the Hub Group are getting. (Personal color preference–there’s probably somebody out there who likes the K-Line boxes, too!)
CSX owns about 12,000 of their 53’ domestic-use-only CSXU containers. They have a division that markets them and moves them, but they also market them via IMC’s and other intermodal intermediaries. They run on CSX and on UP (through an old SP-CSX) contract that pre-dates the UP-SP merger.
I have seen 2 New Green EMP Containers so far but not the Hub Group Containers yet.
Is Hub Group One of those Asian shipping giants? If not what is it?
I’vw seen some of the new green EMP containers, they are mixed in with the old with the old white ones. Who or what owns EMP Because I see them on the CPR trains all the time. anything specific that they ship. I too like the new green one BTW.
Thanks
Justin
EMP is owned jointly by UP and CSX, if I remember correctly. Conrail was also involved, before the breakup.
No. Hub Group is Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL. It was started by Phil Yeager (SP?) who was a Pensy intermodal guy.
To compete with truckers between Chicago and New York in the regulated era it was necessary to come up with 10 trailer rates. Since few, if any, shippers besides UPS moved 10 at a time from one origin to one destination a market niche was created to consolidate individual trailer shipments into lots of 10 to comply with the stuipid regulations.
Yeager saw this as an opportunity to make money. He formed Hub City Terminals, quit the railroad, and began consolidating shipments. After surviving the perils of any business start up, he was able to grow the business and now they have their own container fleet. They changed their name to Hub Group a long time ago.
Last I heard, Phil Yeager was enjoying the good life in Florida while his sons run Hub Group.
Update. Mr. Yeager has just passed away. We need more like him. R.I.P. Phil Yeager.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=108789&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1203396&highlight=
CSX should change the slogan to Yesterdays Freight Tomorrow.[swg]
Carl T.
CSX should change the slogan to Yesterdays Freight Tomorrow.[swg]
Carl T.
CSX should change the slogan to Yesterdays Freight Tomorrow.[swg]
Carl T.
EMP is actually a joint venture between UP and NS. There are some other participating carriers (CP, KCS to a small degree).
CSX was part of the NACS (North American Container System) a competitor to EMP, until the major partner BNSF put a bullet in that program about 3 yrs ago. NS was in that program as well.
I think The Hub Group is actually in Lombard, IL - right on I-88 if I recall. They’re basically a very big IMC (Intermodal Marketing Co.) Until a few years ago, they had no rolling stock assets (used 3rd party dray and leased boxes from the RR’s or used free runners.) Hence, they marketed the assets of others. Around 4 yrs ago, they bought their red boxes HGIU (around 3,800 to start with). They also have some HUBU’s left (NACS BNSF boxes), some HUNU’s (NACS NS boxes) and about 2 yrs ago they started with an UPHU fleet (assigned boxes from UP’s EMP fleet). The first UPHU’s where white EMP’s. The new ones (as mentioned) are green. About 3-4 yrs ago, Hub aquired ComTrak from Memphis as their first in house drayage service.
(What’s with the green paint by the way on the new EMP’s? Some enviro-marketers dream? Not a great idea for visibility. )
CSX should change to their slogan to “Yesterday’s freight, arriving sometime in the future, though we don’t know if that will be in the near future, or further out than that… you’ll just have to wait and see and please use our website - don’t call customer service or we’ll charge you extra… and for the love of God, don’t ask for a paper invoice or we’ll charge you for that and oh-by the way, did you have a resevation for that load, and finally - oh by the way, here’s your rate increase. Have a nice day.”
That one is so accurate, all of the RR’s will be fighting over first rights to it!!
Just a thought. I probably shouldn’t work in marketing, eh?
Got to disagree with you here.
North of I-88 is Lombard. South of I-88 is Downers Grove. Hub Group is south of the tollway and in Downers. (No, I don’t know why there’s no apostrophe in Downers Grove, nobody does.)
Hub is HQ’d in a high rise across a street from Lyman Woods which is a 165 acre preserve of Illinois as it was before we showed up. I lived in Downers for 16 years about one block from the original Pierce Downer home. That house is still an occupied dwelling located next to the Pierce Downer School. Downers Grove is now HQ to other high rise dwelling corporations such as Sara Lee, FTD, etc. Quite the shock to the “old timers” who remember it as a small village stop on “The Q’s” suburban line from Chicago.
I have no idea why my post ran in triples.[D)]
Carl T.