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The driving force on domestic containers is the trucking industry and their ability to lobby federal and state governments on trailer lengths. You will notice that in addition to 53' containers and 40' containers there are also 45' and 48' containers. All of this has come about due to the success of the trucking industry. The main reason why these other size of containers are not used for maritime transport is the design of the the container ships and the road limitations in terms of dimensions and weight overseas. In an attempt to compete with the trucking industry the railroads have gone to other sizes of containers. Previous posts have been quite correct in identifying that it is to the shipper's advantage to have larger containers since competition will allow them to ship the product at the same price as the smaller container. Domestic containers are also not as structurally sound as they are designed to have low tare weights to maximize the weight of the cargo resulting in the inability of domestic containers to stacked as high as ISO containers. Since North American distances are large enough and the volume of internal trade is sufficient enough it makes more sense to make the 53' container the standard for domestic use.
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