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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 Yes, it is all low margin, but for the railroad to A. Invest in equipment that only works in one application. [/quote] For the railroad it is only one application, but for the comprehensive transportation company it had multiple applications. Truck trailers are the most versatile pieces of transportation equipment out there. [quote]QUOTE: B. Control all aspects of the transportation from pickup/line haul/delivery and to have the infrastructure in place not only for the rail movements but also the truck movements. [/quote] Again, for railroads it is (insert voice of talking Barbie doll here) "so haaard", but for a multimodal transportation company it is all in a day's work. [quote]QUOTE: C. Have the model work on primarily short hauls with both drayages to be paid. [/quote] All rail sponsored truck hauls (COFC, TOFC, or bi-modal) will require drayage between terminal and dock. [quote]QUOTE: D. Not the best of sorting facility (Ft Wayne) from the earlier posts on this forum and the Terra Server shots. Others tried, only one has succeeded. [/quote] So far. It begs reference to the hypothetical of trucking and intermodal companies being able to run their own trains vs having to contract with the owning railroad. It is my contention that OA or some variation thereof would result in greater utilization of bi-modal concepts.
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