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Intermodal market update with Larry Gross

In this podcast, Gross offered up his opinions on various aspects of the intermodal marketplace, including: volume and service levels; the East and Gulf Coast ports' labor situation, Peak Season, tariffs, and intermodal pricing among other topics.


Recording Date/Time
Friday, October 18, 2024 11:25AM
Podcast Duraton
00:29:06 hrs/min/sec

In this podcast, Gross offered up his opinions on various aspects of the intermodal marketplace, including: volume and service levels; the East and Gulf Coast ports' labor situation, Peak Season, tariffs, and intermodal pricing among other topics. 

Larry Gross is a 44-year veteran of the freight transportation sector, and President of Gross Transportation Consulting of Durango, CO, an independent consulting practice specializing in freight transportation matters. He is the author and creator of “Intermodal in Depth," an analytical report covering the intermodal sector.

Larry is an acknowledged expert on intermodal matters who makes frequent appearances before the transportation community. He has played a key role in the creation of educational content at the IANA Intermodal Expo for the past several years. He enjoys teaching and has authored business case studies for use in the IANA Academic Challenge competition at the University of North Florida as well as the IANA Expo Academic Challenge.

Prior to starting his consulting practice, Larry enjoyed a long career in intermodal equipment development and sales. He is the individual most closely associated with the innovative RoadRailer intermodal system, an organization that he headed for over a decade.


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