What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle?

Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by UncleEntity on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:22PM (#34193184)

They move a bunch of freight by rail, nobody wants to pay someone a bunch of money to drive it when they can just throw it on a train.

And trains are relatively time inefficient so people in Maine couldn’t have their fresh Californian strawberries a couple days after they are plucked out of the field.

Maybe people don’t deserve to have fresh produce but that’s another discussion altogether.

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by WalterBright on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:49PM (#34193683)

Did you know that one of the very first uses of the first transcontinental railroad was shipping fresh California produce back east? And this was a century and a half ago.

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by UncleEntity on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:11AM (#34194116)

They still do…depends on the shelf life of whatever they’re shipping.

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by WalterBright on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:48AM (#34194294)

They used ice in the old days. Strawberries will last up to 6 days if you refrigerate them coming home from the store, I don't know how long that is since they were picked.

A lot of fresh produce comes in by jet.

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by UncleEntity on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:07AM (#34194344)

It’s quite common for me to show up at a shipper in the morning and whatever I’m picking up is still in the field. I’ve even had stuff loaded straight into the trailer out of the field a few times.

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by sfpotter on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:40PM (#34198671)

Uh, who doesn't deserve to have fresh produce??

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