Roehl Driver Check In

Huh, the one I got at KC rail yard today was from TX too.

 

Are we that short of drivers that we load and do one drop in TX, then put on a rail car to ship to Chicago, then pickup and drive to PA & NJ? Seems like an odd plan for an 18,000 lb partial load. FM was curious as well and was told driver needed to get home in TX. We must be short national drivers in TX?

 

Don't know. Mine only went 30 miles from KC, Kansas rail yard to a suburb south of KC, Missouri.

 

it's cheaper to move by rail, so if it's not time sensitive put it on the train for little money knock out a good chunk of miles then deliver.

 

At the shipper in Milwaukee. Once I am loaded I will start heading to Siloam Springs, AR. I saw Lantern today and talked to him for a few minutes. So has anybody asked their FM why they are pulling the daily idle % and mpg data? I slept all day so I didn't get the chance to ask. I am curious to see what they are up to now. I am sure it isn't anything good.

 

Silly flatbedders. The straps go over the load but under the roof.

 

Welcome to the future of trucking. I can move 300 truckloads about 250 miles in one day on a train. You can move one truckload 500-600 miles a day.

 

I thought this was The Trucker Report not The Railroad Report. You chose to come off the road and I accept that but you don't need to come on here and shove it in people's faces what you can do with your locomotive versus what a tractor and trailer does.

 

That's been said for decades, and there are still millions of trucks on the road. As stores have gone to on demand stocking, trucking has grown, so as long as local stores don't keep huge inventory on hand, no the future is not more train freight.

 

It's becoming an issue for sure. I think we'll see more and more loads moving by rail for a good chunk of of their trip. Infrastructure will limit deliveries, so there will still need to be regional trucks to make deliveries. If there wasn't so much greed involved this could significantly reduce the cost of most items assuming that trucking and rail companies could work together. But there isn't so companies will get richer, items will get more expensive and so on and so forth, blah blah blah....

Wow I even bore myself. I suck.