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Trucks suck. Even with the US' road-friendly policies, transporting goods via truck is twelve times as expensive as by rail.
by causality0 4y ago
Trucks suck. Even with the US' road-friendly policies, transporting goods via truck is twelve times as expensive as by rail.
- eru 4y agoWhy do (some) profit seeking companies use trucks then?
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agobecause the massive subsidies on trucking can make them sometimes convenient enough to be worth it.
- eru 4y agoOh, so what kind of expense are you talking about? Which costs do you want to include? Obviously you are not talking about the market price?
- suoduandao2 4y agoPresumably the cost of road maintenance and the healthcare costs of the additional pollution - that's what I've seen brought up elsewhere when this subject was discussed at least.
- Ekaros 4y agoI'm not sure we are comparing apples to apples here. How much it cost to transfer let's say one container worth of stuff per week to place that doesn't yet have rail? On scale rai is cheaper, but less you use the infra and less you transport at one time more expensive it will get.