schlimm Short-term cost savings, but long-term revenue losers.
Ah, but as the revenue drops, the cost cutters can claim to be heros for anticipating the downturn. Lost revenue and profits simply don't appear on a balance sheet. The standard metrics so beloved by MBAs and analysts never worry about why traffic is lost.
schlimm n012944 dakotafred I do think the rails hurt themselves with these godawful train lengths -- I don't. As a dispatcher I hate them, however as a stockholder I love them. Short-term cost savings, but long-term revenue losers.
n012944 dakotafred I do think the rails hurt themselves with these godawful train lengths -- I don't. As a dispatcher I hate them, however as a stockholder I love them.
dakotafred I do think the rails hurt themselves with these godawful train lengths --
I do think the rails hurt themselves with these godawful train lengths --
I don't. As a dispatcher I hate them, however as a stockholder I love them.
Short-term cost savings, but long-term revenue losers.
Incorrect, but I will bow to your superior railroad knowledge....
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n012944 schlimm n012944 dakotafred I do think the rails hurt themselves with these godawful train lengths -- I don't. As a dispatcher I hate them, however as a stockholder I love them. Short-term cost savings, but long-term revenue losers. Incorrect, but I will bow to your superior railroad knowledge....
My statement is a merely prediction based on market sectors and other business considerations. It may be right, it may be wrong. I make no pretense of having your "superior railroad knowledge" nor do I agree with your defensive attempts to sarcastically denigrate non-railroaders' opinions. Your expertise in dispatching is largely irrelevant to revenue predictions. When investors look at market growth for an airline, they don't seek the opinion of an ATC or a mechanic or pilot. Same deal here.
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schlimm
You are assuming that as a dispatcher is the only job I have ever had on the railroad. You would be incorrect.
You are assuming that as a dispatcher I don't have conversations and contacts with people throughout the company that deal with sales and custormer service. You would be incorrect.
I am basing my opinion on a little bit more than a foamers post about an intermodal train that was tied down for 10 hours on a siding. Just a little FYI, CSX has not changed the intermodal operating plan to the "28 hour day". The new freight operating plan would have little to do the OP's post.
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