J.B. Hunt Officials Say More Intermodal Needed

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.

fficials at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. told the Associated Press the United States needs more intermodal terminals.

ompany President of Kirk Thompson recently told investors that limits on rail service confines intermodal transportation growth, AP said.

Terry Matthews, the truckload company's vice president of sales, said intermodal terminals would allow trucks and railcars to move freight inland from container ports at Long Beach, Calif., and Los Angeles, AP reported.

To help make the system more efficient, the country needs a national transportation policy and government investment to build more intermodal terminals, he told AP.

One version of a transportation spending bill that cleared the U.S. House last week would earmark $250 million a year for intermodal facilities from 2005 through 2009, AP said. The bill is awaiting action in the Senate.

J.B. Hunt is ranked No. 9 on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.