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U.S. Class I Freight Railroad Networks

The American freight rail network is operated by a few, but powerful, carriers. The U.S. has some 140,000 miles of track, the most expansive of any other country in the world, which is owned and operated across four companies referred

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Port of Portland to End Container Services in Fall

The Port of Portland has announced that it will cease container shipping services in October following unsuccessful efforts to keep Oregon’s only container terminal open. The West Coast hub alerted stakeholders that it does not possess enough funding to sustain

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California Trucking Unsuccessful in Blocking AB5 Law

Over the past few years, trucking stakeholders have perceived a particular form of regulation in California as an antagonizing force against the state’s trucking industry and its some 70,000 owner-operator truck drivers. Signed into law in 2020, California’s Assembly Bill

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Federal Rule Mandates Two-Person Train Crews

Federal regulators overseeing the freight rail industry have declared a final ruling which will now require Class I railroads to maintain a minimum of two-person crews. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Transportation,

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