NM wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Conor wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Conor wrote:

In article
.com, says...

Although railfreight has been growing for the last ten years
mainly due to the failure of the road system to deliver
reliability. ASDA, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsburys have been
turning to rail increasingly for the long stuff.

Wrong.

EDDIE STOBART who runs the warehousing at either end on behalf of
the above has turned to railfreight because Stobarts have their
own railheads and goods trains. Sending loads to Scotch by rail
allows Stobarts to free up lorries to go do other work such as
the new Tesco white goods RDC they're opening up at Goole.

Believe me, lorry journeys haven't been reduced by Stobarts
putting stuff onto rail.

Er, what? If they hadn't put that stuff on rail, they would have
had to buy more lorries for this RDC thing etc. It's not a
reduction, but it is a smaller increase!

Hardly. Still needs to go on a lorry at either end.

Again - er, what? Are you telling me going from a 300 mile lorry
journey to a 280 mile rail journey and two 10 mile truck journeys
isn't a reduction?

tom

It's an increase, minimum 3 drivers minimum 2 lorries and a train, as
against 1 driver and 1 truck.

Only for that specific journey. Instead of the lorry doing the whole trip
it's doing work which would have needed additional vehicle/s to do.