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During the past few weeks I sure have seen alot of FEDEX on the BNSF--it seems they have increased the volume---any comments

Image One Fedex thru Frost

Image Two More Fedex on smae train

Dale Smith

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SBD train?

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Hookdragkick Wrote:
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San Bernardino, or Silent But Deadly?

Those are FedEx Freight trailers. It could be that they are routing more loads that used to go by team drivers in sets of 28' vans to TOFC in 53' vans.

ATSF90East Wrote:
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San Ber aka "spud".

These Fed Ex Multimodal are usually Fed Ex Freight loads. Fed Ex Freight is an LTL trucker and they now offer 2 levels of service just like Fed Ex Express air freight.
The overnight and very fast service is over the road and the slower differed service is railroad intermodal where possible.
A lot of Fed Ex Freight customers seem to like the differed service as they pay a lower freight rate.
Same with Fed Ex Express, many shippers like the differed 2 day service and pay less and the packages move by truck instead of airplane in many lanes.
Any Fed Ex division can use the MultiModal trailers, but it is usually the Freight division using them.

gmojim



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/02/13 18:53 by gmojim.

^^^ proof of this website's worth. Thumbs up.

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Excellent pics and comments. I love seeing the all-trailer trains out of San Berdo. Simply not many left out there, so this is special.
As seen here, more FedEx trailers these days than UPS. Maybe they should consider going containers like UPS did and expand even more...

Gmojim is correct. If you looked at the last quarter earnings for both FedEX and UPS, I believe they show less earning because some shippers are using the lower cost options.

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Both. Some trains are the former, and ALL trains are the latter. So be careful out there...

Tor in Eugene

What city or town is that in the background?

Victorville california--Frost crossover located in Victorville--train is headinf eastbound toward Barstow Calfornia

Dale Smith