Rail to Truck

Transloading

Rail-to-truck transloading is the service you need when you’re transporting Materials.

We are the closest Rail to Truck transloading Facility to Boston!

Serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island. We can take delivery via rail, unload and deliver to your jobsite. Call to set up service!

401-932-7214

Benefits include :

  • Oversized & overweight loads without costly permits and time restrictions.

  • 1 Train car typically holds 4 truckloads of material.

  • Move materials requiring transport over extremely far distances.

    With standard trucking there are all kinds of challenges that you have to deal with when you ship freight, from weather to traffic. This form of transloading service will bypass these challenges and make shipping more efficient. 

Rail-to-truck transloading allows you to combine the reliability and large load capacity of rail shipping with the fast service and various delivery options of truck shipping. 

We’ll give you the details on rail-to-truck transloading and why you should take advantage of it. 


How Does Rail to Truck Transloading Work?

Here are the transloading five steps:

  1. Freight is loaded on rail

  2. Rail transports freight most of the journey

  3. Freight arrives by rail at a transload facility in close vicinity of the final destination

  4. Freight is transloaded from rail to truck

  5. Truck transports freight to the final destination

Depending on the size and characteristics of your freight, a variety of different methods can be used to unload your freight from rail to truck. Here at Roy Corp we have cranes and equipment standing by to facilitate your freight.

What Are the Benefits of Rail Shipping?

Rail transportation is a form of freight shipping that has a long history in North America. On its own, shipping by rail has many unique features that shippers and receivers of freight have come to appreciate. We’ll discuss some of the most unique and beneficial advantages of this transportation service.

Cost Savings

Shipping freight by truck over long distances is much more expensive when compared to rail shipments. With diesel prices still at record highs, its better to have the longest leg of a delivery route by rail and then transload to a truck for local delivery. Just see how different the average cost per mile is between truck and rail.

Gas and Diesel Prices In the U.S. (September 2023)

Gas $ 3.80 / Diesel $ 4.49 Provided by EIA

Rail shipping offers a much more cost-effective alternative since trains use three times less fuel than trucks. That means if you’re going to send freight over a long distance, it’s best to use rail shipping to cover most of the journey. Transloading rail shipments to truck help counteract the expensive costs of truck shipping.

Reliable Service

Rail shipments don’t face the challenges of bad weather or traffic to the same degree. While there is the likelihood that extremely cold weather conditions could cause trains to halt, it usually doesn’t happen. Rail companies also run their trains on schedules which ensures there’s a constant flow of freight being transported.

Large Load Capacity

The amount of freight that rail cars can hold is quite impressive. A railcar can carry a weight of around 220,000 pounds worth of freight.

This is about the same amount of freight that three to four truckloads can transport. All of this capacity allows you to transport large quantities of freight that would normally need to be transported by using multiple truckloads.

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