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We're going to keep momentum rolling with our extended and enhanced glossary of freight transport industry terms. Last time we explored the idea of a bottleneck, both on the rails and the highways. We touched on the impact of a slowdown in either place and the way freight transport can be impacted. This month we are going to cruise through the next few items on the list... in alphabetical order of course. So, without further commotion, boxcar is our next term on the list. This is not an especially difficult term to grapple with term, so our exploration should be quick. A boxcar is a railcar that is enclosed, usually is 50 feet in length, and often carries packaged freight, with the occasional bulk commodity. These are especially important components of the freight transport industry as they are responsible for the transportation of a lot of finished goods. If the freight is nearing its final destination, be it shelves in stores, or homes and businesses, it is in a more finished state and requires extra care to protect the packaging and the product itself. This differs from the transport of raw materials and other bulk goods, which can be shipped without the concern of protecting the product or raw materials from the elements of weather and other forms of transportation wear and tear. Occasionally bulk commodities are shipped via boxcar, although typically there are other transport containers better suited for bulk goods. When transporting bulk freight like grain or other raw materials, open topped containers or silo containers can offer more suitable transport. When it comes to boxcars, the general idea behind their creation was to employ standardized equipment to make rail transport more efficient and practical. Generally, boxcars are 50 feet in length. There are a few boxcars out there that are up to 100 feet long and sit taller than conventional boxes. Last week, we continued our discussion of bottlenecks and how they affect the transportation of freight over land. We were finishing looking at the kind of bottleneck formed when a highway or road goes through changes in elevation. These kind of changes can dramatically alter the speed a heavy freight transport vehicle is able to travel. Although the engines that freight transport vehicles are outfitted with are massive, freight does weigh a lot! It doesn't matter what kind of freight it is, if a flatbed truck, or even an ltl truck is fully loaded, it is going to add extra strain to an engine, when hills or steep grades are encountered, the vehicle will almost invariably slow down some. In high traffic areas, this can cause bottlenecking. Some of this is unavoidable, but some of it can be accounted for and minimized through effective logistical planning. In the world of freight transport via rail, there is also the need to plan to minimize bottlenecking. There are some portions of track that experience much higher volumes of traffic and therefore are more subject to the same kind of bottlenecking. This is minimized some by the fact that there are logistical experts that can plan the times of day that these sections will be traversed and avoid peak traffic times. Even so, there is going to be slowing wherever there is a high demand for freight, and a limited infrastructure to support the input or output. Using an awareness of bottlenecking, logistical operations can greatly be optimized. Whether on a highway or on a
railway, the need for good logistics is abundantly clear. Next week we'll look at our next glossary term and see what turn the road takes.
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