Looking to reduce your truckload shipping costs?  Consider Rail-Intermodal.  The service days normally take a day or two longer; however the cost per mile can be as much as $1.00 per mile savings or more.  Let us help you identify Intermodal lanes within your organization and drive your shipping costs down! 

Check to see if your shipping lanes can move via rail and lower your transportation costs.  Please contact us with your customers’ shipping points. 

Things to consider when shipping Rail-Intermodal:
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Transit time: 
It normally takes a day or two longer than Over-The-Road (OTR). 

Distance: 
Rail as an option is better when the distance from point to point is 1,000 miles or greater. 

Lanes: 
Rail is better when it’s going from and to a major market area.  For Example:  Dallas-Los Angeles, Dallas-Portland, Dallas-Atlanta, Chicago-Northeast, Los Angeles-East to all major markets. 

Product Types: 
It’s better to ship product via rail that is not as susceptible to damage.  High value furniture that’s not able to be knocked down should not be shipped via rail. 

Rail Detention:  
At the rail yard or at your facility.  To avoid detention charges, make sure your rail trailers are delivered at the first available delivery time to avoid detention at the rail yard.  Also make sure the driver doesn’t wait longer than 2 hours to get unload.  Detention can get costly and diminish your savings realized by switching from OTR. 

Great Option in Tight Capacity Markets: 
Having trouble finding OTR trucks?  Intermodal offers flexibility in shipping destinations with much greater trailer availability.  Also, if you need drop equipment, rail is much easier to set up a drop program.

Going Green?: 
Is your company initiative to reduce its carbon footprint?  Rail uses about one tenth of the fuel an OTR truckload would use.