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Not all shipping is equal. When I worked for a produce company we shipped via trucks and trains. By far there were many more incidence of produce going bad an
by snarfy 8y ago
Not all shipping is equal. When I worked for a produce company we shipped via trucks and trains. By far there were many more incidence of produce going bad and having to be thrown out when shipped via train than by truck.
Put it on a train, unless it will spoil?
- bigpicture 8y ago> Put it on a train, unless it will spoil? Oh yes, there will always be exceptions. But it will have to cost more. There is no escaping that.
- repolfx 8y agoWhy was the train less reliable than the trucks? I'd have thought it would be the other way around. Trucks get caught in traffic, there are more vehicles to break down etc.
- bena 8y agoFrom what I understand from last time this came up, trains are still used a lot in the transportation chain. Trucks are used mostly for "last mile" deliveries and long-haul trucking for deliveries that for some reason can't be done by train (like apparently your produce example).