BEV charger fiasco – A blessing in disguise?

BEV charger fiasco – A blessing in disguise? Jul 26, 2023 17:01:12 GMT johnofgwent likes this

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Post by Pacifico on Jul 26, 2023 17:01:12 GMT

Jul 26, 2023 7:49:31 GMT johnofgwent said:

Jul 12, 2023 10:51:32 GMT Pacifico said:

The point about freight is that shifting it to rail is incredibly expensive and inefficient. You would get trucks collecting a few pallets from a factory to take them to the station to tranship them onto a train to take them to another station to again tranship them onto another truck to take it to the destination,.

Otherwise you could get the original truck to deliver the load..

to which the killer question is how far, how quickly. Freightliner was supposed to be the way forward about fifty years ago. These days i think we have advanced from tbe days of loading loose goods as per the nineteen twenties and thirties. Or was that eighteen twenties …

The European Union caused the UK significant pollution wear and tear. Goods intended for Ireland were driven by truck from tbe European point of creation on a 20 then 32 then 38 then 42 then 44 ton lorry down two lane roads west of Carmarthen to the utter detriment of life in west wales for decades. With Brexit and the paperwork it imposed, it suddenly became cheaper, faster and less paper chase heavy to put the container on a DFDS Seaways ship and send that to Ireland instead. One day they’ll do it like the channel islands, a ferry with hardly any passengers laden with trailers left at the port and loaded by stevedores. Added bonus is no foreign lorry drivers crashing on roads they drivevon tbe wrong side of

That system has already massively increased in use since Brexit and its fine for non time sensitive loads - however with foodstuffs and JIT loads it gets more difficult and shippers prefer manned direct deliveries.