East Central South Dakota | I will take a shot. One of the biggest components of a shuttle loader is its freight deck and how its managed. Your local bid should be the destination bid minus the railroad tariff, minus freight and minus your operating margin. Tarriff is a bid from the railroad so not much you can manage there. Freight is traded just like grain. It is very hard to get a competitive tariff bid from the railroad to move grain to the southeast and east. Plus, you have to jump over too much supply in the corn belt. Grain movement doesn't jump over supply usually. I have seen it two times, 2012/13 we moved grain that direction and maybe 2018 if I remember right. Dakota's and Minnesota is very reliant on exports to improve our basis. If the world customer wants to help pay our freight in their basis bid, life is good for a shuttle loader.
Edited by white shadow 6/15/2025 22:32
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Question for Railfreight experts - @ Rod@night
