WASHINGTON — Railroading’s top regulators say they now want more detailed information from CSX Transportation, up-front, before weekly calls regarding the railroad’s performance. Acting Surface Transportation Board Chair Ann Begeman wrote to …
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/08/15-csx-stb-update-letter
PDF link to original letter (July 27th) is here.
Is lousy service against the law?
Apparently it is when the STB thinks you’re no longer fulfilling your common-carrier requirements. Or that you’re fibbing or evading requests for information they want.
What is the legal remedy for failing to fulfill your common-carrier requirements?
Would failure to comply with a STB request be akin to Obstruction of Justice?
I doubt it. But failing to fulfull your common-carrier requirement might be a high crime or misdemeanor.
Ulrich, I have watched your posts and long ago concluded you are totally out of touch, tell us, what color is the sky in the world you live in ?
IS it against the law…technically no, but if a rail union went on strike the feds step in and order them back to work as it is a danger to many segments of the US economy. Instead we have a madman at the helm of one of the countries largest railroads which is effectively grinding parts of the ecomomy to a halt. 44 shipper groups went to the STB again since the 7/27 STB notice to EHH as the service has become FAR WORSE. We are approaching the point for shippers and consignees that there will be no more available trucks to call in, plants are going to shut down, orders and material flows are going to stop but that’s all just normal in the parallel universe you reside in.
STB upped the ante with another letter this past Monday increasing the oversight. That makes 2 times the STB has noticed the problem and began involvement, less than 5 months into Harrisons tenure, that speaks volumes. This is an extreme example of why shippers and consignees dislike railraods so much and many, if they could would have nothing to do with railroads at all. I have heard from CSX internal souces that UPS did not renew their contract with CSX for 2018. In case you are unclear, that is not a good thing. Our senior amangement is fully aware of what is happening and is fully onboard to invest in the logisitical infrastructure at our plants to enable nearly all of our volumes conected with CSX to go over to truck or transload. We are working with vendors to support. It will take a year or so to get it all done but the wheels are in motion and there is no going back at this point. These will be 5 or more year deals with many hundreds of carloads going off CSX and none of it will come back to them for a very long time if ever.
But poor service is ok with you…got it…
The company I work at the drivers are wearing themselves out trying to cover were CSX serves the same customers we do. Right now we have no extra capacity to even consider taking on anything else. We are pushing everyone as hard as we can we have mechanics running local runs to free up drivers to cover regional runs to allow more drivers OTR. We are out of drivers we can use and do not have anymore we can hire and right now equipment is getting very hard to come by.
Well if it is not against the law to do what Harrison is doing to CSX, then what will the STB do about it?
Not much. Reregulation under Trump is a nonstarter. The STB can only ask for reports and that’s pretty much it. They are a toothless pussycat. CSX will get back on track with service shortly…
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Ulrich, I have watched your posts and long ago concluded you are totally out of touch, tell us, what color is the sky in the world you live in ?
IS it against the law…technically no, but if a rail union went on strike the feds step in and order them back to work as it is a danger to many segments of the US economy. Instead we have a madman at the helm of one of the countries largest railroads which is effectively grinding parts of the ecomomy to a halt. 44 shipper groups went to the STB again since the 7/27 STB notice to EHH as the service has become FAR WORSE. We are approaching the point for shippers and consignees that there will be no more available trucks to call in, plants are going to shut down, orders and material flows are going to stop but that’s all just normal in the parallel universe you reside in.
STB upped the ante with another letter this past Monday increasing the oversight. That makes 2 times the STB has noticed the problem and began involvement, less than 5 months into Harrisons tenure, that speaks volumes. This is an extreme example of why shippers and consignees dislike railraods so much and many, if they could would have nothing to do with railroads at all. I have heard from CSX internal souces that UPS did not renew their contract with CSX for 2018. In case you are unclear, that is not a good thing. Our senior amangement is fully aware of what is happening and is fully onboard to invest in the logisitical infrastructure at our plants to enable nearly all of our volumes conected with CSX to go over to truck or transload. We are working with vendors to support. It will take a year or so to get it all done but the wheels are in motion and there is no going back at this point. These will be 5 or more year deals with many hundreds of carloads going off CSX and none of it will come back to them for a very long time if ever.
But poor service is ok with you…got it…
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Not much. Reregulation under Trump is a nonstarter. The STB can only ask for reports and that’s pretty much it. They are a toothless pussycat. CSX will get back on track with service shortly…
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Glad to see you have faith in ol’ Hee Haw Head Hunter. I’m sure that functioning lunatic will have things all fine and dandy within a few short weeks. Right.[(-D]
If the calls for reregulation come from regular people, I’d agree with you. When calls come from other business people all bets are off. It will probably come down to which side, railroads or customers, spends the most on bribes campaign contributions to politicians.
Jeff
Glad to see you have faith in ol’ Hee Haw Head Hunter. I’m sure that functioning lunatic will have things all fine and dandy within a few short weeks. Right.
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I don’t know about “fine and dandy” or a few short weeks. My short term is within five years. Not much can be done in just a few weeks. But alot can be accomplished in five years. And in five years CSX will be in better shape than when EHH found it or it will be part of of a larger better functioning system. Even the mess with Penn Central got turned around within five years, and CSX today is in no where near the poor shape the PC was in 1975. Try to have a little faith… there are problems that need to be worked through… such is business and life.
Directed service is the big lever the STB can pull.
Yeah, but he created a lot of them.