No one else covers intermodal quite like the Journal of Commerce. The heartbeat of our intermodal coverage is two data products: The Intermodal Savings Index and the Intermodal Service Scorecard. The Intermodal Savings Index uses a proprietary analysis of contract and spot market rates in intermodal rail and truckload to answer a simple question: How much money should a shipper expect to save using intermodal instead of long-haul trucking in any given month, quarter, or year? Our Intermodal Service Scorecard is an alternative way to measure service beyond the metrics reported to the US government. The premise is that intermodal is a service, and when someone hires a service provider in their personal lives, they often talk to neighbors or go on services such as Angie’s List or Home Advisor to find the top-rated providers. The Intermodal Service Scorecard brings this concept to intermodal by empowering the public to anonymously grade their intermodal partners to answer the questions: Who is the best service provider? And what are the key differences between service providers? In this presentation, Journal of Commerce senior editor Ari Ashe will go under the hood to show how the data is collected, what it's telling us about domestic intermodal, and how you can participate and benefit from the products.