The Surface Transportation Board proposed a procedure for using its newfound power to investigate rail service and delay issues, including a three-step process for advancing those reviews.
May 17, 2016Government
Rail Shippers Group Backs Two for STB, Pushes For Reciprocal Switching
A group of two dozen industrial shippers wrote to President Donald Trump to suggest that he should appoint Patrick Fuchs to the Surface Transportation Board and remove the “acting” title for Chairwoman Ann Begeman.
May 30, 2017Business
STB Proposes Plan That Could Boost Rail Competition
Five years after a shipper-backed proposal seeking to enhance rail competition, the Surface Transportation Board has proposed a new regulatory process that could open the way for more service options for those served today by just one railroad.
July 27, 2016Business
STB Postpones Ruling on Rail Competition Case
The Surface Transportation Board will take another month to decide whether to allow a long-standing, controversial proposal that would create new rail competition in a limited geographical area.
July 1, 2016Government
Surface Transportation Board Proposes to Revoke Rate Deregulation for Several Commodities
The Surface Transportation Board has proposed to revoke its previous ruling to deregulate rates for shipping several commodities, citing changing markets for those shipments.
March 24, 2016Government
Surface Transportation Board Sets New Timetable to Review Large Rate Cases
The Surface Transportation Board published new rules intended to speed up the consideration and resolution of large rate cases, implementing one of the requirements contained in the STB Reauthorization Act that became law last year.
March 11, 2016Government
Grain Shippers Seek Relief From STB on Rail Rates
Grain shippers and freight railroads last week clashed over rates and regulatory review procedures before the Surface Transportation Board, which is searching for new methods for handling agricultural products cases.
June 15, 2015Business
STB to Consider Permanent Rail Service Reporting
The Surface Transportation Board said it would consider whether an interim requirement for railroads to file detailed weekly service performance reports in the wake of ongoing freight delays should be made permanent.
December 31, 2014Business
Freight Rails, Shippers Argue Before STB Over NITL Proposal to Boost Competition
The first public debate on a 3-year-old National Industrial Transportation League proposal to increase railroad competition was laced with clashing financial estimates, predictions of the industry’s demise and forecasts of winners and losers among rail shippers.
April 7, 2014Government
NITL Asks Surface Transportation Board For New Rail Shipping Standards
The National Industrial Transportation League has asked the Surface Transportation Board to establish new standards that would allow shippers who are captive to a single Class I rail carrier to qualify for competitive switching of their freight to a second carrier if certain criteria are met.
March 27, 2014