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Walmart cannot handle the intermodal. <br /> <br />Sorry. Thier current model is a L shaped warehouse one side to take Frozen and Reefer trailers, the other side dry goods and grocery. <br /> <br />The distribution centers usually will need new rail and infrastructure to reach them. <br /> <br />And Kalamah Box lifters will need to be purchased and people trained to operate them. For some reason I cannot stomach a mental image of one of these moving a cargo of breakable stuff. Maybe it is from what I have seen at the piers years ago. <br /> <br />What we CAN do is build a intermodal yard, establish a local Chassis operation and transload the boxes from train to truck and take it to the walmart. <br /> <br />I see no improvement in walmart's ability to absorb 100 new loads a day that is going to slug em. <br /> <br />I see a potential for Walmart to shift everything onto thier own boxes and away from third party motor carriers anyway. <br /> <br />Nah. Walmart will not spend that kind of money, they need to finance the low wages on the already very low prices they have in the stores.
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