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Old 6 Mar 2016, 20:41 (Ref:3620644)   #32
SidewaysFeltham
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Originally Posted by chillibowl View Post
i read the other day that there are around 4 million professional truck drivers in the USA and Canada ...all of whom are effectively going to be out of a job in about 10 years time.

its a scary future for a lot of people/families.
Clearly, and strangely, the answer for interstate transport will be, err, trains.

With more localised deliveries from the goods yard to the final destination.

Consider: freight carried by carts drawn by horses and bullocks.

Replaced by railroads, which indeed, opened up the USA and particularly the West, moving steers from the railheads to the main meat processors.

Trains increasingly replaced by large interstate trucks.

Fast forwards: trucks replaced by much more efficient freight trains using electricity, rather than oil.

In 1930s USA, internal airlines impacted upon passenger railways.

1950s on internal flights became cheap.

2000s on: high speed "Bullet Trains", using maglev technology reach speeds of 400/500/600 Km per Hour (Japanese bullet trains already reach 320KPH). Speed of sound is 1,236, so they have quite a ways to go!
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