trucking trucking

[farmaholic]

.......one way streets.

[TOM4CWB]

I think you guys have imagination problems. We have shipped lentils on CN from Edmonton to Morris MB... and CN as more than happy to seriously undercut back haul truck rates. They made the inconvenience well rewarded. Loaded 3 cars at Edm East freight yard. Soy meal and corn dump sights... are good loading RR points for domestic movement. The 500 mile minimum usually holds true.

[bucket]

500 minimum is why most fertilizer is trucked and wrecking roads.

There is no reason fertilizer could not be railed into most points that have an elevator from belle plaine to wherever 60 to 120 miles away.

[farmaholic]

...ask for a spot in Timbucktoo Saskatchewan. How kind of you to use their designated facilities, in their back yard. Maybe Bucket can get a spot on an old siding that doesn't even have an elevator anymore on a secondary line that is nearly abandoned?

[TOM4CWB]

Just saying...

There are dedicated trains... to some points... that if you want the extra work... can save a handsome sum.

[bucket]

If 20 trucks are moving from humbolt to altona and everywhere in between it just seems that the railway should be used.

[farmaholic]

.....the equivalent to ten railcars a day.

[bucket]

Pretty good business to be handing over to the public highway system.

Little wonder trudeau wants to raise corporate taxes. The railways have no business creating the trucking industry without their share of taxes to maintain the highways.

Lower shareholder returns. Invest in railway infrastructure and haul more product. I would vet the results would be better for shareholders.

Buffet is counting on it. Big time.

He said railways are the future when he bought BNSF.

[Partners]

Last winter our Bunge canola went to Altona..and so is this yrs Dec. contract..Yet we are only 144 kms from Nipawin..Cost Bunge alot more to ship that far..So there must be major dollars being made..

[Oliver88]

The Humboldt to Altona trucking seems hard to figure out.
Bunge has a loading facility just west of Humboldt near Dixon on the CNR tracks.......bad service from CN?

I have heard the Altona crusher can only crush canola and not soybeans so they have to bring in a lot from Saskatchewan.

[sumdumguy]

The reason that we are wrecking the roads with semis is because the cost of sending a hopper of wheat from Moose Jaw to Montreal is $8300. The railways need to make many more billions.

[MBgrower]

Canola fields becoming few and far between in the rrv. Beans taking over. Only a matter of time before a bean crusher is built in s.mb, or existing facilities expand into a bean line.