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Here's my 2 cents, which is probubly all its worth. The way I see it the major problem is arrogence and ego.That puts too many trucks on the road because the railroads can't provide timely seamless service door to door or coast to coast. The shippers want a timely schedual that the railroads can't provide,so they have to turn to trucks. This puts more underqualified drivers on our already overburdened highway system. The reason these drivers are underqualified is because the scheduals are so grueling, the trucking companies can't keep qualified drivers. Here's what needs to happen: (1) A CP/UP/CSX merger (2) A BNSF/CN/NS merger This gives,(with the Mexican affiliates) two east-west end to end systems that covers the whole north american continet. (3) Let the regionals and the short lines do all of the local work. With the right incentives this may inspire some of them to reopen some of the abondoned lines. This in turn will revitalize those portions of this country that the rails built then abondoned.Also these roads, either thru wholly owned or partnered with regional trucking companies,could provide service where there is no rail spur.This does two things (a)Gets alot of trucks off of the road (b)Gives the remaining drivers a sane schedual so the turnover is reduced. So this is how it would work: The regional/shortline either by rail or truck picks up at the shippers door. The load is taken to the terminal of the shippers choice,(one of the two remaining national end to ends). On the recieving end it's picked up at the rail terminal by a shortline/regional to be delivered to the reciever. No fuss. No muss. Timely pick up and delivery.Less trucks on an already overcrowded highway system. Better retention of qualified drivers. Happy shippers. Happy recievers. Happy people in revitalized small towns. Happy everybody. Works for me!!!
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