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Success Stories

Cooking Up a
Better Transportation Plan

Jack in the Box wanted to increase efficiencies and decrease costs in the supply chain, without compromising its high food safety standards. Collaborating with the restaurant and their 3PL firm, BNSF Intermodal devised a solution reliable enough to inspire even more intermodal usage.
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A Supply Chain Tune-Up

Rising fuel prices and driver shortages are nothing new. But Pep Boys' expanded use of BNSF's Next Generation Intermodal concept is and it has helped them save money and accommodate its growing business.
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Working on New Tricks for
Transportation Success

In a rapidly expanding company, PETCO's transportation network was too complex, too costly and not meeting the company's sustainability initiatives. Find out how PETCO was able to reshape its transportation network to realize transportation savings and efficiencies.
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Taking the Lid off Outbound Shipping

The Container Store effectively used intermodal to combat the challenges of driver and equipment shortages as well as finding transportation savings. After converting inbound moves, they piloted a program to convert store deliveries next.
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Crafting a More Cost-Efficient
Transportation Solution

The effects of rising fuel prices and driver shortages led Michaels to look for transportation solutions other than relying on motor carriers exclusively. See how BNSF Intermodal helped it create a solution that met their reliability and capacity needs, while also cutting costs.
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A Taste for Intermodal

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has found that intermodal not only provides a sustainable, cost-effective transportation solution, the service also matches the brewer's temperature- and time-sensitive requirements. These attributes will be increasingly important as Sierra Nevada quenches growing demand in existing and new markets.
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• BNSF Intermodal serves more than 8,000 shippers a year.
• At any given time, 300 BNSF intermodal trains are carrying the equivalent of 50,000 truckloads.
• In 2011, BNSF Intermodal loaded the equivalent of one trailer or container every seven seconds.
• 98% of the top U.S. importers have located their facilities within 200 miles of a BNSF Intermodal facility.

Did You Know?

• BNSF invested $3.9 billion of capital into its network in 2012.
• BNSF Intermodal trains can travel up to 1,000 miles a day.
• BNSF is the only railway with direct service between the West Coast and Atlanta.
• BNSF carried nearly 4.6 million intermodal shipments in 2011.
• BNSF handles more intermodal shipments than any other Class I railroad.
• Intermodal represents nearly 50% of BNSF’s business portfolio by volume.
• BNSF handled 100% of the 2011 intermodal volume growth in the western U.S.
• Intermodal trains are twice as fuel efficient as trucks.
• A typical intermodal train takes the equivalent of 280 trucks off the highways.
• BNSF Intermodal serves more than 8,000 shippers a year.
• BNSF ships more than 40 million packages for UPS between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
• Right now, 300 BNSF Intermodal trains are carrying the equivalent of 50,000 truckloads.
• BNSF moves nearly a million shipments a year of LTL, parcel and perishable produce.
• 18 of the top 20 global ocean carriers rely on BNSF Intermodal to reach inland markets.
• BNSF Intermodal loads the equivalent of a trailer or container every 7 seconds.
• 98% of top U.S. importers have facilities within 200 miles of a BNSF Intermodal facility.