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<P>Years ago there was a big stink in California where smoking trucks with dirty exhaust was rumored to be outlawed. They would want to build massive Oak Ridge style facilities capable of handling ALL commercial traffic at the state line breaking it down from full truck load to small truckloads that the shippers and recievers deliver and fetch for themselves.</P> <P>Then the 18 wheelers will turn right around at the border and head east again.</P> <P>Out west there is just miles of land that is neither fit for man or beast and it could be done.</P> <P>But yer fooling with a established valley that covers hundreds of miles impacting farms, local industry, terrain, historical lands (particularly Virginia) and just thousands of home, land and farm owners just ready to bury City Hall in "NOT IN MY YARD" protests.</P> <P>They should turn those container "Inland ports" into something capable of recieving bulk rail similar to what is happening with the Dedicated Perishable out of Washington State to Albany elsewhere on these forums.</P> <P>Put the California Produce onto dedicated trains, break it down in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Alabama to truckers and the trucks take it on in.</P> <P>I see the death of long haul sleeper trucks with the exception of teams and very high dollar/and or specialized loads that cannot ship any other way.</P> <P>Some may shout NAY! Trucking will NEVER be obselete and they will be right. But the days of .20 cents a mile and 90 day wonders filling orientation with the resulting chaos on the interstate must stop.</P> <P>Especially shippers and recievers that abuse the trucks, drivers and companies by treating everyone involved as nothing more than Temp warehouse workers who happen to carry adequate warehouse space to stop gap the problems for a day, two or several disregarding the next scheduled load that needs to be picked up later that day.</P> <P>Organize the traffic, get it off that I-81 and similar roads and reassign skilled OTR drivers to regional hauls and back it up with real pay and benefits and you will probably begin to see increased use and participation of several DOT related programs such as "Convoying" under computer control and other related air-traffic-like controls to keep the cargo moving.</P> <P>The Interstate system is a mighty good for our nation but it is creaking, groaning and crumbling as successive 4 year government terms paper out previous problems and literally pass the bill and problem list to the next generation to take office.</P>
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