My impression is that there’s a huge integration problem where rail freight is mostly set up to work with the sea-oriented container system, whereas truck LTL w

My impression is that there’s a huge integration problem where rail freight is mostly set up to work with the sea-oriented container system, whereas truck LTL works on the pallet. Or, framed another way: trucks are just too cheap. Truck operators and truck-oriented logistics firms don’t pay for their negative externalities, so there’s no cost benefit in going to the trouble of routing your load through a rail freight exchange on both ends. It’s pure complexity and schedule risk with no upside.