US freight rail is fine and a lot of cargo goes by train for the most part. There’s still gotta be trucks to get to and from the terminal. Not many facilities have built in rail spurs, or the need to ship an entire train load at once for that matter
Rails are indeed one of the cheapest, best scaling, and most reliable ways to move goods no doubt, but it also has a last mile problem.
Just wanted to point out the solution isn’t as easy as “rails all things”. Trucks still do offer some situational advantages, and will still have their place in logistics.
The easy, low-cost solution is to build freight rail. But no, that’s communism and it doesn’t get a tech billionaire their extra billion.
Somehow capitalists all over the world love freight trains. It’s just US being dumb as always.
US freight rail is fine and a lot of cargo goes by train for the most part. There’s still gotta be trucks to get to and from the terminal. Not many facilities have built in rail spurs, or the need to ship an entire train load at once for that matter
So what’s the point of the OPs comment?
Rails are indeed one of the cheapest, best scaling, and most reliable ways to move goods no doubt, but it also has a last mile problem.
Just wanted to point out the solution isn’t as easy as “rails all things”. Trucks still do offer some situational advantages, and will still have their place in logistics.
The place of trucks in logistics is in hell, delivering coal.
If it can be done economically, it’ll be done. And it has been, the freight rail network in the US is huge.