Made my annual snowbird trip South. Rolling down I-95 I passed any number of Amazon trailers. Looking at their reporting marks they were AZNG. I know I have see Amazon trailer on intermodal trains on YouTube.
My understanding was the 'trailers' all had their initials end in 'Z', containers had their owner initials end in 'U'.
Has Amazon gotten some form of variance from the AAR to allow their ownership to be identified as AZNG ?
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Don't chasis also end in "U" ?
blue streak 1Don't chasis also end in "U" ?
They may - being a railroader, you rarely see chasis being transported, just the containers.
Chassis marks end in Z, because they're technically trailers.
As far as AZNG, that's because it isn't a reporting mark. Despite the general convention to refer to them as such, the ---U or ---Z aren't AAR/Railinc assigned codes but the assignment lists are deconflicted. The U codes are assigned by the Bureau of International Containers. Z codes are in a reserved pool in the Standard Carrier Alpha Code list, maintained by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association. You aren't required to have your SCAC code end in U or Z for your trailers, but you can't end your code in U for trailers or Z for containers. AZNG is Amazon's SCAC code.
If I had to guess, Amazon has AZNU on their containers because they're, well, containers and AZNG on their trailers to mean Amazon (Ground). They briefly had the MZN ICAO code for their aircraft (but no longer have an ICAO code. The planes are mostly Atlas Air anyhow.), so there's no real insight there. I'd be interested to note what they internally assign to their local delivery trucks.
NittanyLionAs far as AZNG, that's because it isn't a reporting mark. Despite the general convention to refer to them as such, the ---U or ---Z aren't AAR/Railinc assigned codes but the assignment lists are deconflicted. The U codes are assigned by the Bureau of International Containers. Z codes are in a reserved pool in the Standard Carrier Alpha Code list, maintained by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association. You aren't required to have your SCAC code end in U or Z for your trailers, but you can't end your code in U for trailers or Z for containers. AZNG is Amazon's SCAC code.
That's right. Private (non-railroad) equipment can generally, with exceptions, be marked as desired.
greyhoundsNittanyLion As far as AZNG, that's because it isn't a reporting mark. Despite the general convention to refer to them as such, the ---U or ---Z aren't AAR/Railinc assigned codes but the assignment lists are deconflicted. The U codes are assigned by the Bureau of International Containers. Z codes are in a reserved pool in the Standard Carrier Alpha Code list, maintained by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association. You aren't required to have your SCAC code end in U or Z for your trailers, but you can't end your code in U for trailers or Z for containers. AZNG is Amazon's SCAC code. That's right. Private (non-railroad) equipment can generally, with exceptions, be marked as desired.
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A WB stack train was stopped here fora shorttime this AM.; {Gennerally,they come out of the Logistics Center at Gardner,Ks./or possibly, Argentine?) There were about 20, or so, continers from Amazon, their ID started with the prefix AZNU.. It was also, an unusually configured consist; there were a number of JBH, double stacked boxes, but there were also a number of single stacked ocean carrier, labeled boxes. {Heavier(?); that were blanketed with several inches of snow. Some even had WalMart boxes (53's) stacked on toop of the shorter O/C boxes. Generally, that early train is pretty solid JBH's, and other domestic cans. Plus, there was no TOFC cars/ traffic on this train.
Weather here,is in teens, and light icing conditions.
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