NM wrote:
allan tracy wrote:


At every level the aviation and rail industry surpasses the HGV
industry on safety reliability and general adherence to the rules and
a fat lot of good it does them too, when they're undercut on price by
a bunch of cowboys working ninety hours a week on overloaded badly
maintained lorries.

What about the vast majority of the time when they are undercut by an
industry working within the law using well maintained lorries (as any
successful haulier needs to do to remain in business). If rail was so
good then the business would flow it's way but in spite of massive
subsidies rail doen't even enter the picture, possibly 1950's
mentality, lack of flexability and **** poor customer satisfaction
can be the root causes of their ineptitude.

Railborne freight receives no subsidy, unlike lorries.

What were you saying about 1950s mentality?