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Old 09-23-2012, 07:01 PM   #29 (permalink)
Clev
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So basically if we do all of these very expensive things to the truck fleet, it could theoretically almost approach 80% of the efficiency of trains. And that's if we do nothing to the trains.

I wonder how much collateral damage trucks do to the average economy of the fleet of cars vying for freeway space. More trucks on the road mean more road damage, more traffic jams and more traffic at offramps, onramps and in industrial areas.
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