Re: INDIAN PACIFIC

["Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>]

Chris Brownbill wrote in message <38C10107.A14F9BE2@enternet.com.au>...
>Dave Proctor wrote:
>>
>>
>> What a lot of rot (only the part that MotoRail is part of the freight
>> market). The rates charged for unaccompanied vehicles is far higher than
>> that charged by freight operators that it is not viable to use this means
to
>> transport vehicles. (I don't have exact figures, but this is what I was
told
>> by a senior person at AN about 4 years ago, and he did have access to
exact
>> figures).
>>
>> Dave
>
>Motorail is affected by the freight market and unaccompanied rates have got
>nothing to do with it.  Its the differential in price that the competition
offer
>(road trucking companies) for transport of cars which make it possible for
GSR
>to charge commensurately higher ACCOMPANIED rates for Westbound vehicles
than
>Eastbound.  If you are going to do a trans-Australian holiday with your car
but
>don't fancy driving both ways you could get your car carried by truck one
way
>and fly separately - but because of the competition it will be cheaper to
truck
>it Eastbound because of the discount backloading rates.

And as someone who has worked in retail travel, I can tell you that anyone
who is going to fly one way and train the other is going to hire a car while
over there. It would beat the cost of MotoRail and return transportation
hands down.

Dave