Containers offer a shipping method for small businesses that reduces theft, keeps the shipping load traveling together as a unit, and minimizes the likelihood of losing part of the cargo when shipped ...

USA Truck Inc. announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with BNSF Railway to move private 53-foot domestic intermodal containers. USA Truck, which moved its first rail intermodal load ...

Q: I'm curious why I've never seen four 20-foot intermodal containers in a single well car, stacked two on top and two on the bottom. I've only ever seen two 20-foot containers in the well and a ...

The intermodal container business has allowed many companies to shift longer-haul freight to rails in the face of tight capacity and a driver shortage. But in recent years, Schneider and a handful of ...

Starting in 2018, Texas will increase the weight limits for trucks hauling intermodal containers, allowing loads up to 100,000 pounds to travel within a 30-mile radius of their point of entry on the ...

ID Systems, a provider of wireless M2M asset management solutions, has entered into a contract with one of the largest truckload carriers in North America to deploy its VeriWise Intermodal Cellular ...

One of the fastest-growing areas of hazardous materials transportation is that of intermodal containers. During 2003, a total of 9,502,563 intermodal containers were shipped by rail and 1,227,852 were ...

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Shipping containers come from overseas to U.S. ports every day loaded full of imports like electronics, toys, footwear, clothes – just about anything you can buy in big box stores. But what happens to ...