BNSF’s switching rate blitz – gauging the impact

Rewind: a dispute over switching fees at a handful of Nebraska grain elevators is quietly testing the limits of railroad competition in America’s heartland. When BNSF Railway rewrote its reciprocal switching tariff on May 1, the effect at one Grand Island, Nebraska facility was immediate and blunt: the per-car switching fee jumped from $295 to $1,395. At five other locations across Nebraska, Iowa, and Texas, the longstanding $105 unit-train grain rate ... The post BNSF’s switching rate blitz – gauging the impact appeared first on The Loadstar .