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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds I didn't want to quote the entire post, but this is from Futuremodal: "From the following, you can clearly see that captive rates for domestic intermodal are over twice the rates for intermodal import rates: Average revenue/ton mile for intermodal, captive vs non captive - CSX - $54.11 captive, $26.18 non captive NS - $45.42 captive, $20.85 non captive BNSF - $115.70 captive, $48.88 non captive UP - $91.42 captive, $40.60 non captive source: Rail Price Advisory, First Quarter 2003, Vol 12, No. 1" Dave, Breaking your buble - there is no such thing as "Captive Intermodal". It's on a freaking truck to start with. It can move to destination by that truck.. I think you're using made up numbers. And By God, there are people who will make stuff up to "prove" their point. There's no "Captive" intermodal. All they gota do is get a driver and go with it. Please take a common sense pill. [/quote] Greyhounds, you're stuck on stupid. The term "captive" is accepted nomenclature in both the shippers and railroads' lexicon. We've explained this to you a hundred times before. Captive intermodal relates directly to those North American rail intermodal shippers who only have access to one Class I intermodal terminal within a short haul distance for trucks. Not only are you stuck on stupid, you're apparently stuck on lazy as well. The source was provided, you chose not to access it to verify the numbers. I purposefully did not provde a link just to see if you had an actual initiative to research these things yourself. You don't. For those who want a web link to those numbers, here is the one I used: http://www.railcure.org/pdfs/captivevscompetitive.pdf Now, if you have evidence to the contrary, I would suggest you provide them. And if you are making up numbers, I'm going to challenge the validity of any such statement you provide. You remind me of an episode of the M*A*S*H* TV series, where Radar is attempting to contact a suit in Seoul to tell him they are being bombed and could Seoul please do something about it. The brass man in Seoul replies, "Our latest information informs me that we have no units in that area. You are not being bombed, young man."
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