Every car that we inspected before our user fees changed was approximately $25 or $26, and there are thousands and thousands of railcars of grain unloaded every year. Remember that this cost was far below our actual costs, so in fact every time we charged that $25 we were undercharging for the service, for the cost of what we were providing. That benefited the companies at the time, but they were receiving better value than they should have. Even at that, an unnecessary cost was being imposed on them. So it just seems that eliminating mandatory inward inspection is a win-win, both for the taxpayers and for the industry.
On November 6th, 2012. See this statement in context.