The receivers have a preferred form of transportation. We supply Toyota and Saturn strictly by truck. They pick up daily. He said some rail movements take seven to eight days, and that creates inventory that the manufacturers don't want. Also, the long lead-time forces rail carriers to have up to 14 days of racks available.
Trucking needs only three days' worth.
The railroads get the pieces too large to transport by truck. South Charleston ships 13 rail cars and about 25 trucks outbound each day. The receivers tell the plant when they need their shipment. We schedule the carrier and tell them whether it's one load, three loads, five loads, whatever. We schedule them into the plant for pickup.