FTR | State of Freight

Rail Q&A with MARS — Mixed Signals in The Economy & Freight Markets

September 02, 2020 FTR | Stefan Loeb, Eric Starks, Todd Tranausky
FTR | State of Freight
Rail Q&A with MARS — Mixed Signals in The Economy & Freight Markets
Show Notes

In this podcast, the FTR Experts are joined by the Stefan Loeb of the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers to answer questions from our joint webinar, Mixed Signals: Making Sense of What the Economy and the Freight Markets are Telling Us. The replay from this webinar is available now at www.FTRintel.com/MARS.

Some of the topics discussed in this podcast include: 

  • Lumber demand.
  • Intermodal congestion on the west coast.
  • Rightsizing, service, PSR, and predictability.
  • Car Supply vs scrapping.
  • Railcar build rates vs orders. 
  • Expectations for an election year in the time of Covid-19.
  • And much more!

A full transcription from this podcast is available on the FTR Blog: https://www.ftrintel.com/blog/qa-railsignals/

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