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Freight Railroad Outlook is Positive, says AAR President and CEO Jefferies

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, welcomes back Ian Jefferies, President and CEO of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) in Washington, D.C.


Recording Date/Time
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 3:34PM
Podcast Duraton
00:19:39 hrs/min/sec

During this podcast, AAR's Jefferies provided his analysis of the current state of the rail carload and intermodal markets.

Themes focused on over the course of this podcast included: the freight railroad's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; the state of rail traffic and volumes; the new Administration and Congress and how freight rail can positively help to impact policy; economic regulation at the STB; and hisrecent column in The Hill, among other industry issues.

Jefferies started in his role leading the AAR in January 2019 and prior to that he served as the senior vice president of AAR’s government affairs, overseeing the development, promotion, and implementation of legislative priorities for the AAR. And before joining the AAR, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, from 2009-2013.


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