Discriminated

Everyone knows that the Catholic Church discriminates against women, but some religions are allowed to do so. The president in the USA is also allowed to do so, but he discriminates against everything and everyone anyway, which is called America first.

The hardest hit is rail - something has to change, but not here - which is being badly discriminated against by long trucks. So it has to go to court once again. Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Allianz pro Schiene see nothing less than climate targets and road safety at risk from long trucks, and even public health and quality of life would be at stake.

The only thing at risk here is common sense. It is accepted that in an organization with "pro-rail" in its name, the autoimmune system kicks in with long-distance, electric and all other combinations with trucks. However, DUH stands up for the environment and modern forms of economic activity, sees itself as a think tank and wants to put society on a better path. When was the last time we heard that the railroads were on a better path? Freight in permanent traffic jams, priority for passenger transport and strikes by the train drivers' union are alienating customers. The national monument that is the railroad has no answer to the demands of international transportation, let alone logistics, and the contribution of more rail noise to public health and quality of life also remains unanswered.

Even the otherwise investigative business media have been taken in by the fake news about greedy freight forwarders and mass relocations. It is quite audacious to make an industry out of its innovative strength and to blame measures for more efficiency, climate protection, profitability and thus international competitiveness. Incidentally, you don't hear much about this in the rail sector either.
The margins of truck hauliers are actually just as modest as those of the railroads. Money is earned with reliable and customer-oriented logistics services, regardless of the mode of transport. Imagine if even the critics of the long truck understood this at some point. But then it may no longer be just dimensions and weights that are being complained about, but also robotics, drones, algorithms, simply everything that makes other modes of transport more efficient and logistics more successful.