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Road Haulage *USA - Rail rivalry pulls big rigs off the highway
It is one of the defining images of the rural US
New York,NY,USA -The Financial Times (UK), by Robert Wright -May 26 2009: -- ... Across mile upon mile of highway in the plains of the midwest, the rolling hills of the south-east or the forests of New England, huge trucks thunder, carrying goods from producers to customers or from distribution centres to retailers... The names of the biggest trucking lines – JB Hunt, YRC, Schneider National and Ryder – become as familiar as the names of the fast-food chains in the roadside stop-offs... For many truckers, however, in recent years long stretches of highway have been a less familiar home than the gatehouses and cranes of railroad companies’ intermodal yards, where shipping containers move between truck and rail. As the US economic boom was at its most intense two years ago, trucking lines started to make long-distance movements of containers and truck trailers to rail. The containers make only the short journeys to and from the railyard on a truck... With fuel prices high, and drivers both scarce and reluctant to spend days away from home at a time, the system reduced the number of drivers needed, allowed the drivers to operate nearer home and often cut costs. The move also allowed environmentally conscious customers to say they were reducing their greenhouse gas emissions...
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