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Roy Rolling

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3. Or...

Reply to shanti (Reply #2)

Sat May 11, 2019, 03:08 AM

May 2019

Follow me on this. We could make gigantic trucks, put them on thin roads made of steel, and then call them "trains".

One driver could pilot a whole convoy of connected trucks.

Maybe overhead power lines for special trucks is affordable for highway construction and truck manufacturing with special equipment. I just don't see it.

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Germany Opens First Electric Highway For Trucks [View all] SoCalDem May 2019 OP

this would be great KT2000 May 2019 #1

Driverless trucks shanti May 2019 #2

Or... Roy Rolling May 2019 #3

lol Demovictory9 May 2019 #4

Recall when gas prices made it cheaper to load trucks / containers onto trains? BSdetect May 2019 #5

Yes - I do KT2000 May 2019 #6