Spud
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2006
- Location
- Brookfield, Wisconsin
If you are driving a class A truck, and want to go from Minnesota to Texas or Oregon to Arizona or any number of long distance trips, wouldn't you like to drive your truck onto a rail car, retire to a passenger car in the same train then drive the truck off at the destination? You cut the risk of accidents quite significantly, long distance driving can be exhausting and fuel is expensive. Trains do transport semi trailers but I haven't seen tractor+trailer being transported in the US.
At the very start of this video, entire tractor+trailer units are seen transported by rail.
At the very start of this video, entire tractor+trailer units are seen transported by rail.