LM Podcast Series: The State of Intermodal with Larry Gross


Listen to this episode of the Logistics Management Podcast Series wherever you get your podcasts.

During this podcast, Gross offered up various observations on the current state of intermodal transportation, on a year-to-date basis and in comparison to a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was wreaking havoc on freight transportation operations.

Topics covered included: increasing West Coast import volumes; Peak Season prospects; how the truckload market is impactng intermodal, and the post-pandemic outlook, among others.

Larry Gross is a forty-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 four 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.

Be sure to listen wherever you get your podcasts.


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