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For the last miles, delivering parcels to people and pallets to commerce, they are for sure. Rail just won't work well at that level of granularity. Between cit
by hnick 4y ago
For the last miles, delivering parcels to people and pallets to commerce, they are for sure. Rail just won't work well at that level of granularity. Between cities is probably another story where rail makes more sense but I'd guess it's much easier to schedule a truck at the last minute and you're not beholden to whoever operates the rail network(s).
- p_j_w 4y agoWhat percentage of the cost of a loaf of bread is last mile delivery?
- jrajav 4y agoI assumed we were talking about the high-tonnage 18-wheeler semis in context, not last-mile delivery.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoWhat are you going to replace those with?
- franga2000 4y agoTrains
- konschubert 4y agoIf only the last mile is done by truck, road maintenance taxes will have virtually zero impact on price. In Europe, a truck may transport about 250000 packs of yoghurt. (Assuming 100ml packs.) If the truck pays 3 Euro road maintenance tax per 30-mile trip from and to the railway cargo hub, that comes out at 0.0001 Euros per can of yoghurt, a hundredth of a cent.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoWhat kind of distance are you talking about in real terms for "the last mile"? A few hundred miles or so?
- hnick 4y ago3 euros seems low, or maybe the road use tax here is just too high. One EV road use tax in Australia (Victoria) is 2.5c per km, I'll assume that's fair for now (I doubt it is, but anyway). A prior post said a truck does 5,000 times more damage than a car, which means the truck should pay $125 per km if it's fair. So a 30 mile trip would be roughly $6000. About 2.5c per yoghurt. Not a lot. But it's on each item and will add up. Not sure how often trucks run empty to and fro either, someone has to pay for that. Petrol excise here was halved to 22c/L and my car uses about 8L/100km so that 2.5c does not seem too unreasonable.