By Will Robinson, Reporter, Jacksonville Business Journal; May 20, 2019
The Surface Transportation Board, a federal regulator, will hear from 93 entities over the next two days, the vast majority of which are shippers or rail customer coalitions outraged at a recent surge in railroad fees across the country. All seven Class I railroads, including CSX, will also address the board.
Agencies representing miners, farmers, warehousers, chemical suppliers, freight forwarders and others, even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will tell the board that railroads have upped fees, changed operating rules and inappropriately billed customers millions of dollars, according to the testimonies they filed ahead of the hearings on May 22 and May 23.