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jimvj on March 1, 2006 - 8:53pm

Good luck getting the US truck drivers to defer to freight trains! They can bring Washington DC to a complete halt just by driving on the streets at slow speeds.

That's just onr of the reasons I think Hirsh is optimistic wrt mitigation.

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KJP on March 1, 2006 - 11:36pm

Most trucking firms and railroads already are heavily integrated through intermodalism. It's the fastest growing segment of the rail industry and that says a lot for a rail industry that has seen its overall traffic grow 64 percent since it was deregulated in 1980. Truckers have a saying "If you bought it, a truck brought it." Railroaders now counter that by saying "And we brought the truck, thank you very much!"

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