Its all about clearances and routes. SPL works with all the Railroads including the major Class 1 railroads to short lines directly.
We communicate with the clearance managers and SPL provides detailed engineered drawings to deliver a clear and concise Rail clearance solution.
A dimensional load is larger or heavier than a typical carload shipment moved by rail. Because dimensional loads cannot move as efficiently as other shipments can in the normal flow of rail traffic, they require additional rail capacity and resources.
When is it a dimensional load?
Each railroad has its own parameters for dimensional loads. A base for a dimensional load is
SPL first load in March 2014 was a schnabel railcar load that weighed more than 600,000 lbs
