Why have 100 autonomous trucks all going the same route when you can put the materials on the back of on flatbed train?
“Why have 100 autonomous trucks all going the same route when you can put the materials on the back of on flatbed train?”
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I agree-——and I thought that was the whole point of these trains,to eliminate road traffic.
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Exactly. A truck-only one-way system is called a railroad.
Because most people don’t realize it’’s far cheaper and better for the environment to ship things on trains. Once in the local area it does however need to be distributed.
Because a lot of it is food transport. A railcar can’t bump the receiving dock at Kroger.
If folks wanna slow down the China stuff coming into Savannah, they can do things like: quit thinking they need to update perfectly functional kitchens and bathrooms. A lot of home improvement costs are helping to build the wrong military.
I know some truckers that haul special baseball/softball diamond dirt almost 200 miles,..... to high schools!! Is that necessary? How many kids in the school play the game competitively? A tiny fraction.
Priorities, people, priorities.
For most commodities, putting a load on a train for a 50-mile trip is like taking an airline flight to a destination you can reach in a car in 90 minutes.
I guess that you haven’t been to the GA or Atlanta rail yard
Trains are bad like buses. The trip is great except the endpoints are a deal killer.
People hate walking the extra mile and hate standing in wait in poor weather.
People hate buses.
Shippers hate trains.
If you want to truck goods by train, leave your car home and take the bus.