Transportation week
As for freight, I looked up fuel requirement per ton-mile for rail vs. truck. It appears that rail is about 3.5 times as efficient as truck, or expressed another way, a truck uses 3.5 x as much fuel per ton-mile as train.
As for freight, I looked up fuel requirement per ton-mile for rail vs. truck. It appears that rail is about 3.5 times as efficient as truck, or expressed another way, a truck uses 3.5 x as much fuel per ton-mile as train.