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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I'm not a trucking expert, either. But, I do think that I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express a time or two.
Maybe what you had in mind was a cargo container, rather than a truck trailer. They sit perfectly on the standard-length semi trailer, and can easily be placed on the trailer and taken off. They're the same ones that you may see in a photograph stacked on cargo ships.
Some things don't need fast transportation and, generally, the slower the means of transportation the cheaper that it is. When I was in business school back in the Dark Ages, railroads were considered the second slowest means of shipment. They probably still are. Can anyone guess which one was first (no, this is not a joke this time. ha). If you said "ships" (barges really drag down the figures for ships) you would be correct.
Shipment by rail is inexpensive, and I think that railroads will stay relevant for a long, long time to come. I'm in good company, the billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a huge "position" in one of the railroads. Buffett very, very rarely invests in losers.
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Well I was talking about truck trailers. Not cargo containers. They load the full trailers on flatbed railcars and the funny thing is the UPS trailers are nearly always in a row.
One train I saw had 5 car carriers, several boxcars, then at least 15 truck trailers from various companies, then about a half a mile of double stacked cargo containers. The trains that go through here are usually well over a mile long.
If you would like I can give you proof that UPS puts their trailers on trains.
http://www.oaoa.com/news/traffic_tra....html?mode=jqm
The bus originally landed on the UPS trailers.