Posted on 05/15/2020 7:26:25 PM PDT by buckalfa
Often times the price of transport is more important than the speed.
Yes, OTR has it’s benefits though.
After bulk transport.
(snicker)
And let’s not forget the tonnage shipped by rail from port cities like New Orleans. Those trains split the country up the Mississippi all the way north.
It’s essential commerce to port cities NYC, LA, Houston etc.
Oh, yeah, port cities have hundreds - if not thousands - of miles of track running through them. Those cargo container ships aren’t going to offload onto tractor-trailers one at a time.
Hopefully some good may come from this
If you have ever shipped by Rail you will know that their are more outstretched open palms than trying to get a building permit in New Orleans
Me personally I would put a FORK into some of it by ending Interstate Commerce Laws that make it illegal to use the Panama Canal (if you need to ship a product to Hawaii from East of the Rockies it gets expensive)
That’s right!
I respect the men who do that work.
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