Re: Busy Bargo 6/3

[Reuben Farrelly <reuben@reub.net>]

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At Monday 09:18 PM 6/03/2000 -0500, kak 015 wrote:

>Regards
>Ivar Sorrasson
>
>P.S. Why do these new "Rail" operators leave the word "Rail" out of their 
>Corporate names viz: Freight Corp, Freight Victoria/Australia ?


I'm guessing that they don't want to be seen to be just "rail" operators - 
it's good business practice to not necessarily narrow down what you do in a 
business, and think in terms of "transport" and "freight" rather than 
"trains" and "rails".  A bit like what was FV, in that they obviously don't 
want to narrow their business down to just Victoria if there is good 
business in other parts of the country for the picking as well.

I'm sure that if the Government was to half the cost of buying and 
maintaining trucks and double the costs to railways, rail operators would 
be looking at using trucks too in a much wider capacity.  Then a name like 
"FreighRail" would look rather silly :>

reuben


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Reuben Farrelly          West Ryde, NSW 2114,       Australia


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