To: Alberta's Child
Overnight in the midwest is a see of thousands of trucks making a long haul. And the trucks include mexico and canada.
You’ve always had to offload hopper cars, tankers, or cargo to trucks.
Should we also have floating trucks since ports are distant from consumers?
42 posted on
02/17/2018 7:20:02 AM PST by
a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise
Heavy, dense loads like dry and liquid bulk commodities are among the few loads that are economical to ship over distances less than 400 miles in a train. The higher weight capacity of the railroad offsets the inefficiencies of transloading the cargo.
Maritime shipping is an even more obvious example of this. It probably costs less to move a ton of cargo 5,000 miles across the ocean than truck it 50 miles up the road. It's all about the economies of scale of the transport mode.
46 posted on
02/17/2018 7:45:07 AM PST by
Alberta's Child
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