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I think it's better to put more of the trucking freight back on rail. But that requires a lot of investment in various secondary rail lines. That means public
by vermontdevil 10y ago
I think it's better to put more of the trucking freight back on rail. But that requires a lot of investment in various secondary rail lines.
That means public money. Something I don't see happening for a long time.
- thedogeye 10y agoWhy do you think that? What if the trucks were electric?
- BufordTJustice 10y agoTrucks are very hard on the roadbed, especially given that road damage scales proportionally to the fourth power of the axle weight. For the same reason we don't ship all of our goods in tons of little cars, but use trucks with GVWR potentially many times greater, similar efficiency is pretty simple with trains in that they require less operators and prime movers to move more goods in the same amount of time.