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  1. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    But again, the problem with that theory is the lack of accessibility for rail service. Not every place is able to take deliveries by train.

    Assuming the worst case scenario of what you're saying comes to pass, all that could mean is more regional work for trucks, while the coast-to-coast loads get moved by rail.

    More regional work for trucks, as opposed to 48 state OTR, would be a good thing I would think, because drivers would get home more.
     
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  3. Mr_Dude

    Mr_Dude Engineer Of Doom

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    To say the new era is coming would be an understatement, it's underway.

    Long Haulers are coming to be a thing of the past...and a lot of drivers are now family guys....Since drivers would be getting home more, wouldn't that make for more new guys to try it out?

    Perhaps high diesel is a good thing.
     
  4. Tip

    Tip Tipster

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    You're right, MackAttack, as usual. However, if the powers want it to work, they'll make it work. Think of what happened in the early 30s in the southeast. Places there didn't have electricity as late as '32, and a few years later they did, as all the infrastructure was laid down and made it happen. If the elites want rails to certain areas, those rails will be laid down. Never assume it's a static world. It's anything but static.

    This is why I've said here in the past that warehousing is about to make a huge comeback. If anyone has any large commerical property or just a large lot that could be used for warehousing, and it's fairly near a large metro area and a rail line, he's sitting on a potential gold mine. Warehousing is coming back, you can take it to the bank and cash it on my account.

    Just-in-time delivery works only when fuel prices make trucks the mode of choice. When they become too costly, rails must be used. And being as rails can't deliver freight as fast as trucks in most cases, stockpiles of inventory must be once again kept, just like in the 70s and 80s. Where will the inventory kept? Warehouses.
     
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