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The trucking industry is many many times larger than the rail freight industry in America.

• Something1234 8y ago
  It'd be nice if we had some more rail expansion. Rails are so efficient, and are just more impressive mechanically the entire system is like a giant computer with actual switches. There was an article posted here a while ago about how rare train accidents are and how incredibly fail safe those systems are.
• tCfD 8y ago
  The trucking industry and rail freight industry overlap extensively, in the form of intermodal freight
  • dsnuh 8y ago
    Right, I never said they didn't. But the trucking industry is still by far the main mode of moving freight within the US. https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-staggering-statistics-behind-americas-trucking-industry-2016-12 https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-staggering-statistics-be...
• ghaff 8y ago
  That's mostly because of: 1. (As others have mentioned) a lot of freight is intermodal so containers in particular shipped for long distances by train also travel by truck for the first and last X miles. 2. A lot of freight is relatively local in nature, so it makes more sense for it not to be intermodal.