Union Pacific is blaming staffing shortages for why it can’t move fertilizer.
Strange that a specific cargo is being targeted, instead of perhaps specific locations.
Given how important this fertilizer is to our crops and to essentially feeding the world this year...
doesn’t it seem odd that they would NOT be doing everything they can to make sure those shipments get where they need to go? Everything else can wait.
Of course...Slow Joe wouldn’t use emergency powers to shore up American citizens before heading off to World War III.
Heck, with everything on the line food wise this year why doesn’t Union Pacific want to look like a hero and do this themselves? Maybe we should be calling the CEO of Union Pacific instead?
Lance M. Fritz- CEO
Main Number of UP
402-544-5000 or 888-870-8777
https://www.up.com/aboutup/contact/index.htm
It is not specific to fertilizer shipments. The UP, BNSF, CN & CPRS railroads have all been having issues moving freight around North America.
Sawmills are not getting enough flatcars to load the lumber they are producing. It is causing some sawmills to reduce production. Meaning that several major sawmills in BC have gone to a 3 or 4 day work week.
I just received a car number on a flat car of lumber I purchased from a BC sawmill for the w/o off 3/13/22. It is loading today. Over a month behind schedule. The lumber sat at the sawmill for an extra month. That mill normally gets 15 flatcars/week from the BNSF. They have averaged about 3-4 since last November. All the railroad states is that they do not have crews to move the trains, etc. Force Majour