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LTL trucking is how just about everything you buy in a store is delivered, and it you ever buy anything online that is large or heavy it is also shipped this wa
by burger_moon 8y ago
LTL trucking is how just about everything you buy in a store is delivered, and it you ever buy anything online that is large or heavy it is also shipped this way to your house. The UPS truck isn't delivering pallets of bananas to the grocery store.
- ocschwar 8y agoNope. But note you said pallet. Nothing stopping those pallets from making the long haul on tracks, and the last mile on a truck. (Except politics, that is)
- MisterTea 8y agoHow does the pallet make it from train to truck in a cost effective way? Adding labor into the equation is grade A bean counter kryptonite.
- ocschwar 8y agoThere is no way for it to be more cost effective to truck a load long haul than it is to pay for a forklift operator to unload your truck onto a rail car at one end of the haul and another forklift operator to do the reverse operation at the other end. The reason it isn't done this way is certainly not the amount of labor.