Trucking companies

RailRunner offers a trucking company the ability to broaden its service offerings and its geographic reach by building intermodal capability onto its existing business. A trucking company's experience in the retail end of shipping and its established systems of managing the trucking operation represent substantial advantages for expanding its business using RailRunner equipment. With RailRunner's unique bi-modal technology, a trucking company can move away from simple cost competition by offering its existing customers – and new markets – seamless, lower-cost long-distance intermodal shipping, plus all the advantages of connecting directly into the national and international container shipping network.

At the same time, using RailRunner to plug into the rail system gives trucking companies a way to moderate the effect of rising fuel prices, minimize the impact of the growing shortage of drivers, and reduce the number of complicated multi-day trips, while enhancing customer service and account retention.

The trucking company best suited to take advantage of RailRunner equipment will have:

• An established business providing trucking services to the local market
• A business base of 10 to 20 employees or larger
• The ambition and the management skills to dramatically increase the business
• An existing or potential customer base that can benefit from access to the container shipping system
• Financial capability to raise working capital and to secure asset-based financing for required rolling stock
• A sense of urgency and enthusiasm

RailRunner can provide:

• Co-branded marketing support
• Training in operating the RailRunner equipment
• Systems, software and support for the service operation
• Planning and assistance in terminal design
• Business modeling
• Equipment maintenance
• Management training and support for regulatory certification and compliance

If you are a trucking company interested in exploring the opportunity of becoming a RailRunner Service Operator, click here.