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LTL also makes more sense with shorter trailers, since you can unload and reload the trailer quickly without having to play Jenga at the dock. It also encourag

LTL also makes more sense with shorter trailers, since you can unload and reload the trailer quickly without having to play Jenga at the dock. It also encourages depot-to-depot runs vs supplier-to-client, which leads to the average trip length being shorter. Another factor unmentioned is the amount of independent truckers in the US who own their trucks and who primarily do longhaul sorties spanning a week or more. Can't find any data on this but it is a very commonplace thing in the US for truckers to live in their trucks more than their homes and I'm not sure that is the case in the EU.

holoduke 5y ago
Truckers having their own trucks is history in the EU. Well almost. Nowadays the whole truck busines is in East Europe. with a wide variety of big companies. Mostly if not all international EU transport is driven by trucks from those low wage countries Poland, Bulgaria, Romania. You see them everywhere. From Ireland to Portugal to The Netherlands etc. Most highway parking stops are filled trucks from those countries. They live in their trucks for weeks if not months. It used to be quite dirty environment on those stops. With many eating next to their trucks. It's getting better now.