Re: Adelaide Hills tonnage limit reduced

["Mark Bau" <mbauco@earthlink.net>]

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In article <90ctnj$i78$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, ben_scaro@my-deja.com wrote:


> Not sure that it's particularly economically viable to have your
> capital climbing through the Adelaide Hills at 15km/h while trucks race
> by at 100 km/h- regardless of how well it's coupled.

Average speed is what's important, not the speed for a small part of the
journey. Anyhow, really time sensitive stuff goes in the air, other freight
needs predictibility in arrival times. A company will swallow an hour or two
longer transit times if the rate is cheaper and the promised arrival time is
kept.

Here in the US railroads make buckets of money on routes not dissimilar to
the Adelaide Hills

Mark