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PBF to use only the ‘safest rail cars available’ by July
Who manufactures the world’s safest tank cars?
It is not the railroads it is that own the railcars.
I would say good for them for taking initiative, even if the likelihood is high that this is a PR move.
Sounds like PBF is trying to get ahead of the curve and telling the railroads to get with the plan. Good on them for being proactive.
This is an unfair attack on railroads. Sure, there have been some incidents, as there have with all modes of transportation. Statistically, the railroads are very safe. I am not saying there is not room for improvement but the implication that the railroads are incompetent is simply not true.
Would ECP brakes help increase safety? It seems to me when there is a derailment, it might be less severe if the whole train went into emergency at the same time, rather than having the rear of the train keep rolling into the front due to brake propagation time. It would be easier to implement on unit trains than on the whole population of freight cars.
Would ECP brakes help increase safety? It seems to me when there is a derailment, it might be less severe if the whole train went into emergency at the same time, rather than having the rear of the train keep rolling into the front due to brake propagation time. It would be easier to implement on unit trains than on the whole population of freight cars.
O K folks this is why they are doing this. and again this has proof why your uneducated in the business world. CN and CP are putting a $325 dollar fee on every dot type rail car tanker class that was built before 2011 to transport crude only . This came across the reuters business wire friday night and goes into effect march 31 of this year. This fee eats into every refiners mottom line per car. Think about it.
O K folks this is why they are doing this. and again this has proof why your uneducated in the business world. CN and CP are putting a $325 dollar fee on every dot type rail car tanker class that was built before 2011 to transport crude only . This came across the reuters business wire friday night and goes into effect march 31 of this year. This fee eats into every refiners mottom line per car. Think about it.
O K folks this is why they are doing this. and again this has proof why your uneducated in the business world. CN and CP are putting a $325 dollar fee on every dot type rail car tanker class that was built before 2011 to transport crude only . This came across the reuters business wire friday night and goes into effect march 31 of this year. This fee eats into every refiners mottom line per car. Think about it.
Shippers and receivers are not railroaders. They just want their goods delivered when promised and not damaged. I’d be shocked if PBF management saw things any other way. I would want that too, if I was PBF. That’s what they’re paying for. On top of their performance expectations, PBF gets bad PR when one of their trains derails. Not fair, but the reporters always find out where the train was headed.
It seems that the Kalamazoo River has still not recovered
from that PIPE LINE OIL SPILL. And I do not want it shifted
to the highways.
But It seems to me that government could help the railroads to relocate more through tracks away from heavily populated areas, whenever that is possible.
Sounds like a PR move by PBF to me (complete with Mr. O’Malley’s uninformed comments about “keeping the trains on the tracks”). That said, it might help accelerate the needed changes.