That works for Canada and the US and other large counties. Here in the UK a truck can drive from one end of the country to the other, John O Groats to Land's End (837 miles), in 24 hours, given a driver swap. Delivering a container to a rail depot in the UK it wouldn't be en route in 24 hours. Containers are moved all over Europe by truck because the railways cannot compete. The only goods that do well on UK railways is the like of coal and oil. Vast quantities of which are regularly moved from one dedicated rail head to another. And even then they are very low priority on the railways, with passenger traffic being number one.
These lorries are heading to the channel ferry bound for Europe.
