Dear Member or Industry Contact:

ACACSO’s Annual Fall Meeting will be held the 8^th, 9^th and 10^th of November at The Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. As usual, this meeting will be packed with informative presentations. In addition to these presentations, you will have a chance to meet your peers from the industry. Problems are many times easier to solve when you know the right person to call. To foster the building of professional relationships and a sense of common cause, the association's customary Wednesday evening reception/dinner will be a River Walk Water Tour on three barges with dinner at the restaurate located at the top of the Tower of Americas Restaurant

From the enclosed preliminary agenda, you can see the meeting will cover many important and timely topics. We will start Wednesday afternoon with a very solid block of presentations, including a very interesting 5-year forecast of the North American fleet, an in-depth discussion about how car hire rates are determined, what constitutes a special reclaim, and much more.

If your responsibilities include areas of car hire or car service, you need to be at this meeting. Get the whole picture when we take a multi-disciplinary view of how the car hire and car service rules impact each other. Learn more about Rule 5 TOL, TRAIN II and LCS. There will also be presentations covering Operation Life Saver, an Owner/Shipper private line perspective, and even “black holes” in car accounting! We will also have industry updates from various committees which have an impact on car hire/car service rules and processing, and an overview of the Mexican roads arena.

Meeting registration fees are only $60 for pre-registered members (more for non-members and late registration) – this may be the best value for any rail industry event. Please see the Association’s web site, www.acacso.org, under the “Meetings” tab for information on the hotel and how to make reservations. The site will also have the most current version of the agenda.

The entire ACACSO Executive Committee is excited about this meeting and we look forward to seeing you in San Antonio, Texas. Please do not delay, make your hotel reservations today ? our block of rooms will only be held through October 10th.

Sincerely,