Operations Committee

Chairman: Barry D. Michaels, Union Pacific Railroad Company

Vice-Chairs: Angie Baggett, Landstar System, Inc. and Jeff Grahovec, APL Limited

Staff Liaison: Tom Malloy

Roster of Committee Members

Next Meeting: April 30, 2008 (Oak Brook Hills Marriott Resort, Oak Brook, IL)

Last Meeting: November 9, 2007 (Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA)

Minutes of November 9, 2007 meeting

Purpose of Committee: Responsible for fostering better operational practices between intermodal providers to assure customers the highest level of service. Acts as a facilitator in resolving operational problems between and among intermodal providers.

Projects/Reports

Click here to view the OCEMA Draft Overweight Guidelines as presented at the May 2, 2006 meeting of the Operations Committee in Oak Brook, Illinois. Please forward written comments to: iana@intermodal.org.

Click here to view the Operations Committee's Hides-Proper Loadings Task Force report: "Recommended Practices for the Loading of Hides."

Operations Committee Active Task Forces

Operations Committee Advisory Group (Members)

Leader: Edward F. McQuillan, Optimizational Alternatives Limited, Inc.

Terminal Efficiencies/Best Practices (Members)

Leader: Ben Shelton, Union Pacific Railroad Co.

Click here to view the UP-WSG Presentation, May 2, 2007

Security—TWIC Group (Members)

Leader: James Shondel, Nascent Technology, LLC

Click here to view IANA's Antitrust Guidelines