[Alberta's Child]

If a factory is in Ohio and not China then the truckers could use standard semi trailers and not intermodel boxes.

Oh, would you please stop. You have no idea what the hell you're talking about. I have published reports on this subject that you can review online and download.

Let me give a brief lesson in intermodal shipping that even you can understand. Look at this photo below:

The Maersk container on the bottom is a 40-foot international shipping container.

The APL Logistics container on top is a 53-foot domestic shipping container that is sized to match the maximum length of a standard box trailer in the U.S.

The container on top was never on a ship before it was stacked on this train -- and yet there are thousands of these containers being moved across North American by Class I railroads every day.

The 53-foot container is used extensively in the U.S. for domestic freight transportation. That's because for distances over 400-500 miles, a freight railroad can transport most non-perishable commodities more cost-effectively this way than a trucking company can.

Please do us all a favor and educate yourself before you spout your nonsense here on FR.

[central_va]

Total BS. My post was spot on you globalist hack

[central_va]

The 53-foot container is used extensively in the U.S. for domestic freight transportation of IMPORTED foreign made goods

Fixed it.

Funny thing on I-95 95% of the semi trucks I see are using standard semi trailers and not inter model boxes.

Factories in the USA ( yes global boy there are still a few left ) use standard semi trailers to ship to domestic warehouses all the USA.