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The great news is that the railroads don't care and don't have to care because right now they are capacity constrained and there is a shortage of trucks so they can provide just about as poor of service as they want and will loose minimal business. <br /> <br />However - shippers will puni***he railroads at the next economic downturn by an exodus to trucks. <br /> <br />A small recession or more interest inflation will cool down the building industry. That takes away volume from the RR's, creating possibly some surplus capacity. It also - simultaneously provides a pool of drivers to the trucking industry which will then be poised to take freight from the RR's at a point where they will really want / need it. <br /> <br />Right now rail execs are exercising very short term thinking - how can I make my next quarterly earnings release look a little better, with little regard to long term customer impacts.
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