CSX Anti Truck Commerical

Yeah, right. When trains can provide "dock to dock service", I'll start getting worried. There was already a war between trains and trucks. Trucks won, trains lost. End of story.

 

Not a bad commercial.

But that is the company that smashed into school bus and killed a little girl down here.

 

they have a right to promote their business just like anybody else,

 

I didn't see it as an "anti truck" commercial. This might be a slow time of the year for them as well and they are just letting the world know they still exist.


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And do you suppose the trucking industry has the capital or the brains to put up an add with Four hundred and fifty five thousand, two hundred and seventy three automobiles on either side of a RR crossing waiting for the engineer and conductor to back up three thousand times to drop off 16 rail cars on 5 different tracks? No!

Why? Because the trucking industry hasn't done anything new in 30 years! Because most trucking companies are putting their trailers on the rail, handing the RR more profit than they themselves make. Trucking isn't going to get federal money like the Railroad has since Moses was a lad! And companies haven't figured out that all the energy they have spent cutting the throats of their own employees would have been better spent in trying to innovate the trucking industry and making in more profitable for all.

"A rising tide lifts all ships." They do not think in those terms, they would rather eliminate every owner operator in the country by making them haul freight for a penny less than is profitable, help pass rules to curb trucks for 10 hours a day and lobby for cheap labor from south of the boarder who will never buy a home in America, never buy a car in America and never, ever back up to a shipping door who hires Americans to manufacture anything again.

 

Actually the rail does supply alot of manfuactures with raw materials and carries a lot of their product to points here and there. Granted its more convenient to be located next to a rail line but there are a great many companies that use the rail to get their finished product out the whatever region they want it to be in. Saying that, shipping by rail will not make trucking obsolete.