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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1306432" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p><a href="http://www.progressiverailroading.com/intermodal/article/UPS-relies-heavily-on-railroads-to-keep-the-giant-Chicago-Area-Consolidation-Hub-on-schedule--37645" target="_blank">http://www.progressiverailroading.com/intermodal/article/UPS-relies-heavily-on-railroads-to-keep-the-giant-Chicago-Area-Consolidation-Hub-on-schedule--37645</a></p><p></p><p>"'Rail is a 24/7 operation for us. We depend on our transportation partners,' says Keith Hargarten, CACH's dispatch manager/feeder, adding that the hub requires 92 trains per day, and moves 5,000 inbound and 6,000 outbound shipments by rail per week at 13 intermodal ramps."</p><p></p><p>How many feeder drivers are needed to 5000 inbound and an additional 1000 outbound above the return trips from the inbound. The railroads, according to the article, use 92 pairs (an engineer and a conductor). And this is just at CACH; not all rail shipments go through CACH.</p><p></p><p>Sent using BrownCafe App</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1306432, member: 32753"] [url]http://www.progressiverailroading.com/intermodal/article/UPS-relies-heavily-on-railroads-to-keep-the-giant-Chicago-Area-Consolidation-Hub-on-schedule--37645[/url] "'Rail is a 24/7 operation for us. We depend on our transportation partners,' says Keith Hargarten, CACH's dispatch manager/feeder, adding that the hub requires 92 trains per day, and moves 5,000 inbound and 6,000 outbound shipments by rail per week at 13 intermodal ramps." How many feeder drivers are needed to 5000 inbound and an additional 1000 outbound above the return trips from the inbound. The railroads, according to the article, use 92 pairs (an engineer and a conductor). And this is just at CACH; not all rail shipments go through CACH. Sent using BrownCafe App [/QUOTE]
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