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Is UPS quitting the railroads?
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1306001" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>FedEx pays their Sleeper teams less than UPS teams, hence it isn't as expensive for them to truck everything....and yet even they have begun to use rail.</p><p></p><p>Rail is congested due to the oil boom, no doubt about it, and UPS may be forced to put on more teams, but, by and large, the majority of ground shipments going more than 400 miles will still use rail. You do the math: one train with 25 double-stacked containers, or 50 feeder teams, each man grossing $2600-3000, to say nothing of tractor, fuel, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1306001, member: 32753"] FedEx pays their Sleeper teams less than UPS teams, hence it isn't as expensive for them to truck everything....and yet even they have begun to use rail. Rail is congested due to the oil boom, no doubt about it, and UPS may be forced to put on more teams, but, by and large, the majority of ground shipments going more than 400 miles will still use rail. You do the math: one train with 25 double-stacked containers, or 50 feeder teams, each man grossing $2600-3000, to say nothing of tractor, fuel, etc. [/QUOTE]
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