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Tuesday, 14 April 2020

When it comes to transport, how to truck and rail compete?

Ronald Moehr: rail has the advantage... 2 locomotives can pull 17,000 tons of coal.. (about 88 cars) .. that takes a few hundred trucks off the road... plus fuel for all those trucks and the drivers.. all it takes is a engineer and a conductor and one tank of diesel will last a week in a locomotive ...

Kelly Bistodeau: humanitarians support the trucking industry because they pick up hitchickers, otherwise its no contest.

Jen Maday: railpro: huge amount of freight can be moved at reasonable speed (like 100+ freight cars at once at about 35-40 MPH), which makes bulk shipments very cheap, very fuel efficient (and conversely, minimal air pollution)con: only goes to "hubs", not any point to any pointtruckpro: can go almost anywhere to anywhere (as long as there's a loading dock or lift gate), reasonable capacity (containerful of stuff at once)con: truck diesels are polluting, labor intensive (driving is a full-time business)The best system is combine the two: use t! rain to send stuff from one major hub, like a port, to another hub, then use trucks the rest of the way to individual locations. con:...Show more

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