Sentence examples for carload traffic from inspiring English sources

In many classes of carload traffic similar decreases were experienced by rail carriers.

Federal regulators would intervene, and truckers compete intensively for less then carload traffic.

Other carload traffic can include hopper wagons for minerals, agricultural products, solid fuel (Iess common now), ores and similar products, tank cars for liquids, powders, granules, pellets and gases.

By the 1990s road transport has captured most general freight traffic, with less than carload traffic was discontinued in July 2007 with the end of the Fastrack freight service.

The proportion of repetitive business using established or preferred routing can vary but high levels of contracted repeat business comprises a high proportion of carload rail traffic activity.

It omits recent major railroad consolidations, the rapid rise of inter-modal freight, the rising importance of the regional and short line operators and growth within the US railroad sector for block trains and also a strong residual market for carload (wagonload) traffic commodities some of which move in carload blocks.

Meanwhile, on Thursday the Association of American Railroads reported that freight traffic rose 0.5% to 1.32 million carloads in May compared to the same month a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said, with carloads of coal, grain, and chemicals, which include ethanol, rising.

Nearly 1.3 million carloads of freight and 1 million intermodal rail traffic units, which are trailers and containers that can be loaded directly on flat cars, were shipped in June.

As roadsides explode with the vivid orange-red of Indian paintbrush, the yellow of primroses and the rich signature blue of the bluebonnet, the pavement explodes, too -- with thousands of carloads of bloom-besotted rubberneckers drinking in the beauty and slowing down traffic.

There has been a similar take-off in the United States, from about 11,000 carloads in 2009 to 234,000 last year.The network is struggling to keep up with the rapid growth in traffic.

Admission: $20 per carload.