Europe does have some OTR trucking, with sleeper cabs, around the same size and usually a little smarter laid out than you'd typically find in a Freightliner, Mack or Pete. Cabovers are ubiquitous because they (sanely) regulate the length of road trains, of which the truck pulling it is part of that measurement, which means no room for a hood the size of a studio apartment hanging off the front.

Long haul trucking makes no sense. But you still do need to get that container from the rail yard to the loading dock.

I want the drugs you're having. Our rail cargo system is so broken that the only freight moving on it is not time sensitive or value. Most trains in the US? Unit trains of garbage or coal, military hardware, containers that already spent 8 weeks at sea getting here, aren't valuable and aren't needed on a deadline. The Class I railroads have done everything they can to kill off their own business for anything faster or more valuable. These same railroads have been actively closing routes to increase scarcity to keep prices high. Furthermore, their attempts at this, called Precision Scheduled Railroading, ends up stretching labor so thin and making trains so long that their own track systems can't support them, forcing entire subdivisions to only run one train at a time because the passing sidings are too short to let any other trains through when they're going. And when they stop, they block emergency services and cross traffic for miles, which, given the average size city in the US has a population of 5500, could very well Berlin Wall the city until they move.

This whole mess could have been avoided if the US nationalized the railroads under Conrail instead of just the Penn Central system.

Someone should tell literally everyone in the Mississippi River and Columbia River basins then, we're not seeing it. The worse the railroads get, the more barge traffic increases. Like, to the point where even really random seaports like the Port of Tulsa, Oklahoma is seeing steady growth.

Vans are also what the trailer pulled by a truck is called, even in the US. I should know, I drove the damn things to make ends meet during the Bush Depression.

Yeah, this country has a serious nazi problem right now. We really need to ban the Republican Party for the same reasons the Germans banned the Nazi Party.

Because interstate marine and air cargo volume is within the margin of error of no volume whatsoever in this country thanks to an extreme overinvestment in aviation and highways and abject neglect of marine and rail transportation infrastructure.

Trucks are ideal for last mile operations from the long-distance trains to destination and kinda crap at long distance operations anyway.

RFK wasn't elected, he was appointed.

You antiamerican asshats are literally a disease.

Bruh needs to stop promoting nazism and get off his delusional billionaire high horse.

It's illegal to promote fascism or host content that does in France. They should have gone after him for that, since there's only three groups on Telegram, 1) Gay furries, 2) American nazis, and 3) Russian nazis. The latter two groups are enough to hang the man, and they should.

...is there a way to opt out of this?

because this idiot charade of pretending that corporations are people with people right is fucking absurd.

With some actual common sense being displayed for once. The US is a country where the overwhelming majority of centerline miles of road are not paved. And where they are paved, they're typically not marked or maintained too well because that'd get in the way of highway megaprojects to add freeway lanes that don't actually move more people or add functional capacity.

Sorry, the correct answer is OpenDocument Format. Which, oddly enough, works better across different Microsoft Office versions than Microsoft's own file formats.