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Originally Posted by instarx
I think those are mostly containers being sent from/to ports, not for local or regional deliveries. From an efficiency point of view shipping only trailers would be best...
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Take a look at the next few freight trains you see. There are a lot of actual trailers being shipped (with wheels & all), as well as containers.
Of course if we were designing an efficient freight system, it would be best to ship just the containers, then pop them on a trailer bed at the rail depot nearest the the ultimate destination.
Wouldn't be that hard to design an efficient system that'd get freight to its destination on time & efficiently. If FedEx & UPS can do it with packages, why not freight cars? Like so much else, the problem is getting the people involved to actually want to do it, rather than muddle along in the same comfortable "tomorrow's gonna be just like yesterday" trap.