Trucking is expensive. If you care about cost, you're gonna trade off time to use a more cost efficient method, like a train. Where trucks do have the advantag

Trucking is expensive. If you care about cost, you're gonna trade off time to use a more cost efficient method, like a train. Where trucks do have the advantage is truckers though. You can saddle them with debt and take all their money as varying fees, then reposses their home and get some new rube to take out a loan to buy it from you. The truckers are plentiful, and willing to bleed our for a couple crumbs, which is a much better deal than trains where the conductors are union employees. It's much harder to make them take out debt to pay you more