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Road Railer-Why isn't this a slam-dunk?
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<p>All that crap hanging off the trailer cuts seriously into what you can put into a box. In fact, that weight cuts down on how much money you can load into that trailer literally.</p><p>A second problem is one of maintaince. Trailers get thrown around and abused until something breaks. When it does break, they try to get the load delivered first and then set it aside to be fixed, if ever. That road rail stuff just increases more stuff to break.</p><p>Training. Not too many companies are going to take the time to train drivers on how to rail them things or unrail it.</p><p>And finally...</p><p>The paperwork mushrooms into a frankenstien whenever you change modes of transport. Road, Rail, Water trainsport inside the USA. Any one of the three modes or any combination of those modes will affect who gets what money for the haul and how the paper work is done.</p><p>Triple Crown does it on the Horseshoe and they make it work. But a average trucking company? NAH. We can beat a train most of the time except the Tropicana Juice.</p>
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