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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal http://www.logisticstoday.com/displayStory.asp?nID=7515 Seems the National Industrial Transportation League's solution to the captive shipper/differential pricing problem is to revert to a form of rate regulation via certain caveats in the Stagger's Act. I told you this would happen, abuses by the Class I's (percieved or otherwise) will always lead to retroactive actions. [/quote] Ahhh. The NIT wits are at it again... How can we line our pockets at everyone else's expense?? Perhaps we can scream we are "captive", yeeeeah, suuuuure.... Why don't we just ship their stuff for FREE??!! I doubt they'd be happy even with that... Guess what, the shippers luckily don't get to decide what their rates are. What a concept, huh, FM? At any rate, given the current congestion, EVERYONES rates are going up and going up A LOT. The demand outweighs the supply and unless railroads are allowed to make money by raising rates there won't be any additional capacity to move more, so those precious shippers will have a choice. Pay higher rates or truck it...if they can find a trucker that they haven't already run out of business through their predatory price cutting demands... What goes around comes around...re-regulation won't expand capacity. It deserves no consideration in national transportation policy... LC
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