Intermodal News ReportIntermodal Association of ChicagoFebruary 6, 2012

Jason HilsenbeckLoadMatch & Drayage.comPresident – Founder

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Unit Count Intermodal 53’ Container Fleets (U.S. Domestic)54,500 JBHU - JB Hunt

22,900HGIU, HGWU, UPHU, NHUU, NHWU, HUNU -Hub Group

18,000 PACU - Pacer12,600 SNLU - Schneider (does not include IMDL trailers)

6200 SWRU - Swift (adding 500 more in Q1)

1000 APDU - APL Logistics500 RBTU - CH Robinson350 BRNU - CH Robinson400 UTLU - Universal Logistics (adding 400 more in Q1/Q2)

350 DRTU - Dart 300 BNUU - USA Truck200 MTLU - Marten

3500?UPSU - UPS  (count not confirmed, rumored to be adding 3000 more in 2012)

30,831 EMHU - UP/NS/CN/CP31,000 UMAX - UP/CSX

4056 CSXU - CSX170 TMXU - Kansas City Southern

total: 186,857

data as of Feb 3, 2012 - researched by Jason Hilsenbeck, owner of

Unit Count Intermodal 53’ Container Fleets (for ocean shipping)? APHU – APL

1,500 CMCU – Crowley100 STRU – Sea Star

* note 53’ ocean containers are built differently than 53’ containers for domestic …ocean 53’s are stronger so many containers can be stacked on top inside the ocean vessel

data as of Feb 3, 2012 - researched by Jason Hilsenbeck, owner of

Closures

5/2011 - Compass Consolidators closes doors after 35 years

9/2011 - Romar intermodal division became an agent for Landstar after 20+ years (Romar started out as Trailer Train in 1965)

12/2011 - Rockwell Transportation closes after starting out in 1981

IMC / FF / Broker News

9/2011 – Mark XVI (Mark 16?) founded by former Mark VII / Exel Transportation (now Mode) owners Bob Liss, Dave Hursey, J Michael Head

11/2011 – Transplace, an NVO/FF merged with the Celtic International, an IMC (keeping Celtic name)

12/2011 – Echo Global Logistics, OTR Broker, buys Transport Systems - TTS, an IMC located in Rochester, NY (TTS started in 1981, will change name to Echo)

Distribution News

January 31, 2012 - Chicago Sun-Times Home Depot open new distribution

center in February 2 in Joliet (655,000 square-foot distribution center, to employ 350 people)

Dayton Freight Lines plans to open new terminal late 2012 in Joliet as well (110 jobs)

February 3, 2012 – Caterpillar /Progress Rail closing Electro-Motive / London, ON plant, opening in Muncie, IN (2 1/2 times bigger)

Drayage Trucking News

Old Dominion opens container drayage terminals in Baltimore and Seattle/Tacoma on February 1, 2012 (now 16 terminals doing stand along container trucking!) Atlanta, GA ~ Baltimore, MD ~ Charleston, SC ~ Charlotte, NC ~ Chicago, IL ~ Greensboro, NC ~ Huntsville, AL ~ Jacksonville, FL ~ Long Beach, CA ~ Memphis, TN ~ Mobile, AL ~ Norfolk, VA ~ Oakland, CA ~ Savannah, GA ~ Seattle/Tacoma, WA ~ Wilmington, NC

Drayage Trucking News

Knight Trucking opens container drayage in Oakland, Seattle, Kansas City, Gulfport MS (already serving Los Angeles/Phoenix, New Orleans)

Schneider National Intermodal Services offering stand-alone container drayage service in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Laredo

Drayage Trucking News

Transport America offering stand-alone container drayage service in Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Birmingham, Memphis, and Atlanta

Really Recent News

February 3, 2012 – CN opens intermodal terminal in Chippewa Falls, WI (100 miles east of Minneapolis)

February 3, 2012 – Maersk sells chassis-leasing subsidiary Direct ChassisLink (DCLI)

February 3, 2012 – Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Acts passed by House committee but the full House rejected proposal on Feb 6

Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Acts

conduct a three year study on increasing the truck weight to 88,000 pounds with five axles and 97,000 pounds with six axles.

80,000 lbs. United States gross limit went into effect 1981

97,000 lbs. Europe limit (44 tons)103,000 lbs. Canada average limit

(46.5 tons) (western province of Alberta, Canada: 140,000 lbs./63,500 kilograms)

107,000 lbs. Mexico's limit (48.5 tons)

Conclusion

International ocean container volume had slow growth in 2011, expect same for 2012

53’ domestic container volumes increased dramatically in 2011, expect even more truckload-to-intermodal conversion in 2012

With increase in intermodal volume and demand for CSA safety scores, expect more truckload carriers to offer stand-alone drayage service.

Thank you

Jason HilsenbeckPresidentLoadMatch & Drayage.comNaperville, ILwww.loadmatch.com = Equipment Matchingwww.drayage.com = Phonebook of Draymen630-428-9230 x114