If the freight rail system were as good as it should be, long distance trucking would be a rounding error instead of the dominant freight mode.

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anonymars 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Trucks and trains serve different purposes. My understanding is the US has a higher percentage than most of freight carried by rail. Indeed at the expense of its passenger rail

	▲	TylerE 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Airlines killed passenger rail, not freight. Prior to it all being rolled into Amtrak virtually every railroad was losing money on passenger service.