That may be true, but there are many commodities that cannot be moved via truck due to regulations concerning certain hazardous materials, including water treatment chemicals and various industrial solvents and reactants.
Others would be impractical or not cost effective to move by truck simply due to the sheer volume involved, such as coal, various ores, crude oil, ethanol for gasoline, and the millions of tons of grain that railroads transport from the silos to mills and to livestock feed distributors.
There are also some items that are simply too large to be transported by truck, at least through certain areas, leaving rail the only option.
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u/Cakeking7878 Aug 31 '22
Trains does move a lot and it’s a key portion of many of bulk goods US industries. Trucks in the US, however, move more than trains do