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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding In our part of the country, a lot of farm commodities are shipped out on trucks because the trucks are more competitive than rail. In a perfect world, every shipper in a free market country would deserve competitve bidding on the movement of their agricultural products. Competition requires 2 or more parties bidding on the price. It makes little difference if the 2 bidders are railroads,or trucks,or barges,or Great Lake freighters. [/quote] I would venture a guess that those farm commodities are shipped out by truck because the truckers are more responsive to the desires of the shipper, not necessarily because they are more competitive. In the perfect world, trucks would only be used to haul the commodities from the farm to the nearest railhead. There was a time when railroads were more responsive to the desires of shippers, but then again there were more railroads to go around. Now, our economy takes a hit every time something is shipper out by truck long distance rather than rail because the greatly diminished closed access rail system has skewed the natural transportation market. And rather than "two or more", de facto competition starts with three or more. It's called the theory of triopoly.
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