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Averitt reportedly in intermodal discussions with BN, CSX

October 26, 2009
Mark B. Solomon
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Less-than-truckload carrier Averitt Express Inc. is in discussions with railroads Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) and CSX Corp. to tender more intermodal freight to the two railroads, according to an industry source.

The source, who asked not to be identified, said at the recent American Trucking Associations annual meeting in Las Vegas that BNSF "has put a push" on Averitt, while CSX "also is opening the dialogue" with Averitt.

Brad Brown, marketing and communications director for the Cookeville, Tenn.-based Averitt, said only that the company "is working to establish strategic relationships with the railroads to deliver world-class intermodal options for our customers." A BNSF spokesman declined comment. CSX was unavailable for comment.

Speculation over discussions between Averitt and the two railroads come amid published reports that truckload carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services is in the advanced stages of discussions with Norfolk Southern Railway to help Hunt expand its intermodal coverage in the eastern half of the United States.

*An earlier version of this story stated that JB Hunt was in talks with CSX. JB Hunt was in talks with Norfolk Southern Railway.

Transportation Intermodal
KEYWORDS Averitt Express Burlington Northern Santa Fe CSX Corp. J.B. Hunt
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    Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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