Compared to other sources of freight, trucking freight method needs lesser amount of capital. For example, when using rail or air as freight modes, the capital investment that has to be borne by the authorities are much. When using trucking as a freight mode, the cost of constructing, operating and maintaining roads and high ways become much cheaper. Furthermore, freight handling authorities are not liable to construct roads and high ways as they are built by the state and local governments. The only fact that the trucking freight authorities have to do is to pay a certain amount to the state or local government, when they use the roads and high ways (Forkenbrock, 1999, 2001). As the road freight needs lesser capital, it is able to provide
