Unleash the Power of Precision Analysis for Your Rail Rates
With Rail Impact, harness tools to manage and negotiate your rail freight rates.
Benchmark Your Freight Rates
Analyze your rates and compare them to what other shippers are paying.
Find Savings and Manage Rates
With our proprietary cost model, understand the marketplace like never before.
Negotiate with More Confidence
With the improved knowledge of your rates, negotiate with the carriers.
Act on Your Rail Rates
Railroads Will Negotiate
Join us for a 45-minute session to learn about the art and science of rail rate negotiation from our industry experts.
How Rail Impact Improves Your Rail Rates
Expert Assistance, Here for You
Rail Impact isn’t just a rail rate analysis solution – it’s a team of experts with experience on both sides of the negotiating table, who are there to support you. Whether you want to discuss long-term rate strategies, prepare for negotiations with a rail carrier, or uncover your transportation costs versus your competitors, you can take advantage of our expert’s insight and knowledge.
Evaluate Your Options
With Rail Impact, you can quickly and easily view routing options and rail mileages. Within Rail Impact is a comprehensive serving carriers database, with each rail station and junction. When you enter your origin and destination, Rail impact will provide the options.
Understand the Marketplace Better than Ever
With Rail Impact, you can access a proprietary cost model in addition to the government’s Uniform Rail Costing System (URCS). Our cost model is regularly updated with railroad financial data and its validity has been verified by both railroads and clients.
Knowing the railroad’s costs isn’t just important for developing rate targets, but also for estimating your rail rates without spending the time to make a request and wait for a quote.
Compare Your Rates to Other Shippers
With Rail Impact, you can analyze your rates the same way railroad pricing managers do. With the included database of sample freight bills from the Surface Transportation Board, as well as profitability comparisons generated from the railroads’ data, you can understand how carrier market shares are changing, and what railroad pricing strategies might be driving those trends.
Comprehensive Knowledge at Your Fingertips
With Rail Impact, spending tedious amounts of time researching rail-related information is a thing of the past. Serving carriers, routing options, fuel surcharge miles, and more are all available to you. Rail Impact provides easy access to databases of reference information: all in one place, right at your fingertips.
Free Rail Rate Resources
Shipper’s Guide to Rail Rates
Download our comprehensive guide to rail freight rates. Get historical insights, current trends, analysis strategies, and negotiation tips and tricks.
Railroads Will Negotiate Webinar
Join us for a free webinar led by our industry experts, where you’ll learn about the art and science of rail rate negotiations.
Success
Stories
Over the years, we’ve helped shippers find success with their rail rates. We’ve collected some examples to help you with yours.
The Rail Impact Advantage
Comprehensive Hub
View a summary of activity including quick access to expert-led webinars, industry articles, and rail reporting.
Your Rate Database
Save details of lanes in a secure database for easy access and analysis.
Serving Carrier & Switching
Identify customer stations with the associated serving railroad(s).
Rule 11
Analyze the individual rail segments of your lanes by railroad.
Rail Costs & Benchmarking
Understand the railroads costs, and corresponding benchmark rate estimates, for any lane in North America.
Market Analysis
Access government data to determine rate and volume trends for your commodities and view detailed freight bill information.
Rail Reference
Obtain needed information quickly including access to railroads’ websites, stations, junctions, and more.
Routing Guide
Determine and evaluate alternative routing options between stations.
Rail Mileages
Obtain railroads’ operating and fuel surcharge miles between stations via alternative routes.
Experience Rail Impact:
Connect with Our Rail Rate Experts Now
With the guidance of our rail rate experts, get a first-hand look at how Rail Impact can save you time and money on your rail spend. We’ll walk you through the functionality of our solution and talk about how you can use it to optimize your rate management and negotiation strategies.
Contact Rail Impact
Rail Impact® Office
Telephone: (610) 783-4551
Email: impact@rsilogistics.com
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