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Indeed. My company is the Union Pacific #33 customer and they told us two weeks due to their service issues, we would be limited to 4 outbounds per day or 28 a week. We ship more than double that. I have no idea how this is not a slap in the face to shippers that when they have internal issues, the best customers get punished. I have 0 luck getting a hold of my rep either to get questions answered. We are going on 2 weeks and it hasn’t been implemented so who knows.

For one of our larger facilities we have a contract with the UP to ship a minimum set amount of railcars per month in order to reach a threshold for a discounted rate. Stipulation in the contract says that if we go under a certain threshold per month, we get penalized for 50% above the normal tariff rate or something stupid like that.

Well it turns out that the UP wants to cap carloads out of there at right below that minimum threshold. Similar to your experience, we get the runaround and/or no response from corporate. Our rep just directs us to another team who takes ages to respond to anything.

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Posted by VolsOut4Harambe

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Member since Sep 2017

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Posted on 4/27/22 at 8:53 am to nolatrain504

double post

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Posted by OU812ME2

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Posted on 4/27/22 at 8:56 am to VolsOut4Harambe

I had a friend who worked at CSX. He managed a fairly large Southern section and said the new CEO/group that came in destroyed what was left of the company. That was like 5 yrs ago. It got so bad that he left after 30 yrs making great money, but basically worked 18+ hrs a day 6 to 7 days a week.

Now he's happy and managing a company in a completely different industry.

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Posted by Warfox

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Member since Apr 2017

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Posted on 4/27/22 at 8:57 am to Horsemeat

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If they don't quit fricking around the feds are going to bust these companies up - the amount of mergers over the last 3 decades has really stifled competition by rail and its going to get worse now that CN is taking over KCS

These near end-game mergers are occurring broadly across the economic board, and are very harmful to our economic system.

Competition is necessary in our economy for downward pressure on prices and upward pressure on efficiency via the mechanisms of competition.

The only thing these mergers have resulted in is increased profit margins for these corporations.

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