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Except that nearly all US rail is for freight. We hate PASSENGER trains. We freaking love freight rail.
Except that's rail only carries 16% of freight by weight and 2% of freight by value.
Pretty sure USA hates freight rail too.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-846-november-10-2014-trucks-move-70-all-freight-weight-and-74-freight-value
You're looking at a different issue. I'm referring to passenger trains vs freight trains and you're talking about freight trains vs semi trucks. I'm saying that the rail we do have, we overwhelmingly use for freight. It's the primary reason we still have trains today in the US.
In regards to percentage of freight shipped by rail vs other means, I believe you that semis take a ton of that.
And semi rigs (which are the topic of this post) are....personal transport?
No, the subject is shipping cargo. Try to keep up.
You were the one that brought passengers into the conversation.
Yeah... Saying we don't use them as much as... Freight. Try to keep up?
But american freight trains are laughably bad too
https://youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY