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Many large trucking outfits, and I used to work for a very large one, have things set up with customers so that much of the freight is set up for drop and hook. When I would show up at a customers dock, either the load would be preloaded or I would drop my load and pick up an empty. The customer therefore, could load or unload the trailer at his discretion. This is not all that much unlike how railroads do it. The difference is the transit time. The other factor too, is predictability. With my company, I worked briefly at one of our customers as a contract driver. I had some discussions with the shipping/receiving manager. He told me of their experiences with the railroad. They had dock space for five cars. It was a paper company. Anyway, they would have cars of paper ordered from their mills in Arkansas that would leave the mills on a regular basis, but show up at the box plant sporadically. One day, two or three cars would show up, the next day ten cars, none for a couple of days, then three. In other words no way to plan inventory based on when they needed the paper. Therefore, they used trucks to fill in the gaps, and railcars to reduce what they spent on freight charges.
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