How do trucks pick up their cargo and where?

would you say that trains are more important than trucks ?





why so?





please explain.





Thanks for your answers!How do trucks pick up their cargo and where?
In the UK, and as a Class 1 HGV driver, I can categorically state that Trucks are 1000 times more important than trains. The only thing trains are good for is in moving large numbers of passengers, who would otherwise clog up the roads. As for freight movement, trains are restricted by the amount of available capacity on the rail network - not a great amount in our overcrowded island. Trailers are usually loaded / unloaded by ';fork lift truck';., at either the suppliers or local distribution depots. With a 44 tonne / 26 pallet truck a full load can be picked up at 0600, and delivered the same day if required by the same driver, or ';trunked'; to its destination by another one. If the same load was collected by train, it would be delivered by truck usually in a container. It would then have to wait in a marshalling yard until sufficient cargo is collected, then transported to somewhere near its destination until it is collected by another truck. The idea that Electric trains are ';greener'; than Diesel powered trucks or trains is a load of rubbish. What are the majority of power stations powerd by? Fossil fuel - oil , gas %26amp; coalHow do trucks pick up their cargo and where?
Looks like you have asked 2 questions here, so lets start with the first :





Trucks collect their cargo from initially the place of manufacture/production or a re distribution centre. They can be loaded in various ways depending upon what is to be loaded. These can include, fork lift truck (FLT), conveyor belt, used in the loading of potatoes, cages, used by supermarket RDC's to deliver goods to stores.





Secondly you ask if trains are more important than trucks. Well each form of transport has its advantages and disadvantages.


Trains - advantages : Able to move a large amount of cargo in one go, such as hundreds of tonnes of coal, thereby reducing the amount of trucks on the road.


Disadvantages - you still to be able to transport the goods to and from the rail head to be able to transport by train.


Trucks advantages - able to driver right upto the place of manufacture and deliver direct to the shop/place of delivery.


Disadvantages - More cargo that need to be moved means more trucks on the road, which helps to lead to congestion(although there are more cars on the road with only one person in than trucks delivering).





Interesting thought though, why do trains that need repairing and/or reconditioning seem to move by road? And how do the parts that are required get tranported to the factory?
No trains are not more important ,economical yes. Its a time thing,it takes alot longer to get goods by rail to their destination. Trucks can take a more direct rout quicker. I work in the trucking industry and see all the time what happens when goods are sent by rail, they ( rail cars) often get lost in switch yards. and another way of looking at it is that train tracks do not go just anywhere as trucks can go must anyplace where there is a paved road and sometimes where there are not paved roads. Also more often then not the cargo that are transported by rail are then unloaded onto trucks to get to their destination. the company i work for hauls grain from a local cereal meal (cargil) to places from any where in the united states and canada. because it takes weeks and sometimes months to get from this mill to the destination where a truck can get it there in a couple of days or less. hope this makes sense,
I wont answer your first question as it has been answered sufficiently





Road transport is extremely useful for door to door and relatively small loads, reaching the destination without any deviation,





Rail transport normally means the train arrives in a yard, and the goods are distributed by trucks accordingly. However, it is faster and can carry a lot more than trucks, avoiding congestion. The other downside is they run to set timetables.





But this isn't a problem for the major uses of Railfreight (Coal and Intermodal/Food) As most coal now is loaded at a dock (from a ship) and taken to a power station direct, Intermodal is another, it involves a container shuip dockign at a port, and the train taking the containers to another terminal, distrobution from lorries is required at the end. A train can carry far more, and emissions are far reduced than all the goods on the train where carried by trucks, and as the government is in favour of rail freight, it is cheaper. Thanks
trucks pick up their cargo where it is made, everywhere it is cheap- i.e. not here (the UK). Then they bring it to countries like ours to sell it - and quite literally THEY do bring it over here now that all the barriers are down.


There is a million times more scope for smuggling and a tril;lion times the scope for defrauding the inland revenue or customs and excise.


Just on the fuel that runs these trucks around our country and then on all the other hauls within our country- to send a truckthats ready for the knackers yard over with 2 x 1000 litre tanks on and then scrap it over here can be quite profittable just on the diesel.





But NO I don't think trucks from abroad are the most economical way or the greenest way.


I personally think it is unsafe for any vehicle to be on our roads that is not purposely built for them- i.e. the steering wheel on the right.


I also believe trains should bring cargo into this country and everything should be xrayed so that there was NO DOUBT about the cargo's. I do think trains instead of foriegn lorries would help saftey issues and take a lot of the congestion away from our streets, and a lot of the scope for abusing our country would be closed off.


It would have to be a national train that made the journey in and out of countries so that our government had full control and all the resources.
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