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If the trucks are used for last mile, as long as you have the same number of end destinations, don't you still need roughly the same amount of trucks? I'm assum
by vasco 2y ago
If the trucks are used for last mile, as long as you have the same number of end destinations, don't you still need roughly the same amount of trucks? I'm assuming in trucking short-haul the largest amount of times are in receiving / dropping cargo and shortening the distance by 100 km doesn't make much difference but maybe it does?
In my mental model the trucks just have to go "somewhere else" to pick up the cargo, which might be a bit closer, but that's it?
- Spooky23 2y agoNot necessarily. Because each container is an atomic unit, you can presort at the origin or some other point. I’d envision this like the old USPS Railroad system. In those days they’d drop a sack of mail at each station and pick up outgoing mail with a hook without stopping. You’ll have small stations and you send the pallet off the main conveyor. That might be directly delivery, or a van or some other arrangement. The big thing is you avoid cross docking and middlemen, LTL type freight.
- Someone 2y ago100km is 200km round-trip. At 100km/hour that’s 2 hours (which, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_Japan#Summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_Japan#Summary, is the absolute best possible) Also, they’re talking of 500 km, or 1,000 km round trip. That’s easily a day of driving.
- spywaregorilla 2y agoThe trucks going from distribution center to end destinations are not the same trucks running from tokyo to osaka.