that's what my "really" was meant to convey... "they don't compete with each other" would be contra what you said, "they don't really compete with each other" i

that's what my "really" was meant to convey... "they don't compete with each other" would be contra what you said, "they don't really compete with each other" isn't. A different way of saying it is "Trucking is not competitive with trains at certain distances"