Transport Companies

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY and LONGVIEW SWITCHING COMPANY,, No. 07-35066, a federal appeal. The panel consisted of Carlos T. Bea and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Joseph M. Hood, Senior District Judge.

HOOD, Senior District Judge:
In its Complaint, Plaintiff-Appellant United Transportation Union, General Committee of Adjustment GO-386 (”Union”) alleged that Defendants-Appellees Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company (”BNSF”) and Longview Switching Company (”LSC”) violated the Railway Labor Act (”RLA”), 45 U.S.C. § 151, et seq., by implementing a trackage rights agreement approved through the process prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Act (hereinafter, “ICA”), 49 U.S.C. § 10101, et seq., without bargaining with the Union. (more…)

USPS Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) consists of specialized containers such as sacks, pouches, trays, hampers, over-the-road containers and pallets. The Postal Service has more than 1.1 billion pieces of MTE, which is used at close to 400 processing facilities, over 33,000 post offices and hundreds of major mailers nationwide to help achieve the safe, secure and timely movement of mail between Postal Service facilities and its customers or contractors.

MTE is a valuable and essential Postal Service asset, and it is imperative that facilities or customers do not overstock (hoard) MTE.  MTE may be used only to transport mail, and borrowers of MTE (such as private mailers) are responsible for its proper use and return.

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Transportation consultants can play a key role in helping you save time and money. We have found there are 10 major issues you should consider when hiring a transportation consultant. In part 1 of our two part series we will look at the first five. In part two we will review the remainder.

Transportation Consultants should take the long-term view that puts you, the client, first. Select a transportation consultant who has worked for leading companies for a long time and avoid consultants who have had a number of one-night stands. Long-term relationships bring value in many forms. If the transportation consultant has had long term relationships, chances are the advice he/she provides is both practical and implemented. Keeping the same transportation consultant (Not just the company but the people) means there is no need to educate them with each new assignment saving time, and time is money in consulting, It allows you to bounce ideas off them between engagements (normally for free) and it enables them to bring you new ideas when they discover them.

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Information Systems Experts (ISE), LLC, a leader in Microsoft Business Intelligence and Wireless application development for the Transportation and Logistics Industries has opened a new office in Jacksonville, Florida.

“It just makes incredible sense” said Jeff Hastings, president of ISE.  “Over the years, we have done a fantastic job taking care of our Jacksonville customers from a distance.  In our line of work long distance relationships are not that uncommon, but I’m really excited about the level of service we will be able to provide by actually being there.”

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Transportation Management. How often have we talked about this crirical aspect of a supply chain. Well, not too often I guess. We are all obsessed with increasing production, boosting Sales and increasing customer satisfaction to drive economic growth. But we very often tend to overlook this part of the order fulfillment. May be we are not to blame entirely. The Transportation domain is very dynamic. Any planning or management requires a tool which is flexible yet accurate at the same time. Is it a tough ask? Yes it is. The number of factors which go into transportation planning can be enormous. Add to it some external factors and it makes a perfect recepie for trouble.

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So, before I write about the joys of Prague last week… I want to get something off my chest first.

The public transport in Prague is not too expensive, although some people would disagree with me. The problem is the availability of tickets at night. There’s no machines available, no shops open, metro stations where there are offices: closed. If you can reach machines, but don’t have exact change: good luck. Even the guys from the tram/metro service won’t change money with you. Oh, and the tramdrivers don’t sell tickets.

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The House just passed HB 300, the sunset bill that seeks to revamp the Texas Department of Transportation, and it’s not a moment too soon. They argued for nine hours yesterday, running though about 101 amendments, till about midnight before adjourning.

After another three hours — and about 80 amendments — the House finally took a vote. The bill easily passed a second reading. A third and final reading will take place Monday, and members will be busy reviewing the scores of amendments that made it into the law, many of which aren’t yet understood by even the lawmakers who voted for them.

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In ancient time, people had to purchase cars from confined dealers due to the intricacy in transporting a vehicle from one destination to another. But now the scenario has been changed, with the aid of auto transport companies, people can purchase cars from anywhere in the world. Auto transport companies are useful for military personnel, personage or seminary students who frequently changes their locations and have to transmit the vehicles to its new destination. Many people think it’s vital and not as much of expensive to bond an auto transport companies to ship their cars, rather than transporting them themselves across the country. So it’s really very important to choose the auto transport companies as car is the most precious and valuable asset of the people.

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Evercore Partners, the boutique investment bank, said on Thursday that it had hired a senior banker from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to establish its transportation and infrastructure team.

George R. Ackert, who will also head Evercore’s sports advisory business, was previously the global head of transportation and infrastructure at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He ran the gaming, leisure and transportation group at Merrill before it was sold to BofA, and during his tenure he worked on deals like the merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines.

“George is an outstanding banker who brings to Evercore broad experience and a wealth of relationships, having advised on some of the most significant and transformational deals across the transportation and infrastructure sector,” Roger Altman, Evercore’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement.

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I know it’s been a while (again). Here’s what I’m thinking about right now.

The of a lack of a good journey planner and coherent information design has caused me a lot of trouble since I moved here. To outline it; there are currently two different public transportation companies here, SBS Transit and SMRT. They run their own bus lines and their own train lines, which luckily are connected and use the same payment system (unlike, I hear, in Tokyo).

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