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Triple Crown says the weight penalty on a current-model 53' RoadRailer trailer is about 800 lbs.It's difficult to make the economics work unless the lane has consistent load factors and loads both ways.  Otherwise there's a lot of equipment sitting around as well as an investment in terminals that is being spread over not enough loads.  Conventional domestic container or trailerload is much more flexible, the equipment is cheaper, and the terminals have more loads in more lanes to spread their costs over.Specialized equipment is often squeezed between two rocks -- one rock is that it takes a lot of loads, consistently, to make the purchase of the equipment economically viable; the other rock is that when you have that many loads, boxcars become economically viable.  So you work really hard to build up the traffic and then you lose it to carload!Triple Crown has found much of its success in autoparts lanes, where the parts originate at a fairly dispersed grid which makes it hard to get the costs low for carload, the load factors are very steady, and backhauls are available. It's really hard to take a network business (trailerload, domestic container) and carve out speciality lanes.  All of the economies of the network are denied to you. S. Hadid
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