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High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

So you expect every business in the country to have train tracks pull right up to it?

Plenty of freight already moves by trains, planes, boats, etc. but that doesn’t move it the final mile(s) that it needs to go to make it to a business…

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Final mile is probably a lot cheaper to buy fuel for.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Wait till you hear of the bakfiets

    Coolblue is a computer shop.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I'll just hop on my scooter and transport, checks freight manifest, 20 tons of product.

    that won't be so bad over my, checks delivery address, 60 mile route.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    They use standard electric vans where the route is too far. But in high density areas a van stops making sense.

    My comment was on a comment about last mile.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    last mile can be up to 100 miles away from the distribution center. along rural routes that may not see a public building like a gas station the entire trip.

    the thing I think Europeans cannot comprehend is the volume of space the US has. I used to drive two hours, one-way, for my job because that's just where I worked. there was no public transit because my town had a population of under 1000 people. it took 30 minutes to go to the grocery store.

    these are normal things in the US.

    what works in Europe won't always work in the US.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Thats fair as a European I indeed have no idea how to even think of distribution in that scale. But surely the overwhelming majority of last mile transportation occurs in the large cities: where trains can be a replacement for city to city transport.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    This is true, but everyone got comfortable with a semi driving from one side of the country to the other. I can tell you it's no longer viable. Brace yourself for the impact I guess?

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