Probably more like 7-10k lbs, so 3-5 tons, depending on the specifics of the trailer. More if it's a fifth-wheel type.
Yes, clearly there are cases when it makes sense to ship by train, otherwise they wouldn't exist. I can't tell if I'm not getting my point across, or you just want to be pedantic, but the point is that most people who own the capability of transporting something, will transport it themselves.
There's a comparison that's been making the rounds on social media for a while.
In once panel, there's the Cybertruck whose owner bragged about it carrying a large round hay bale (weighs around 1,500lbs) with the suspension looking like it was about to die. Next to it is a shot of a circa-1980 Ford F250 carrying three of the same bales and sitting perfectly level. TBF, the F250 probably had air bags in the rear suspension, but still...
That thing is only a "truck" because they decided to call it that.
Even modern trucks have turned into giant "luxury" vehicles that can't haul much more than the smaller trucks of 30 years ago. For most trucks bought by families, the heaviest thing they lug around is cat litter.
Um, no. I live on a farm and often have to do chores in the dark with an LED headlight. Sometimes I have to turn it off because I'm dive bombed by so many insects.
I don't think the CoCo I could be expanded beyond 32k since that's as many address lines as they brought out to the bus. When I worked for Alpha Products/Colorware, we sold a MacPaint clone for the CoCo2 that required 64k.
I never knew there was an expansion pack for floppies.
At my first job, we used Model I's for testing hardware. Since we were live-plugging I/O boards into the bus to test quickly, we'd occasionally kill one (they were surprisingly robust, though). No matter: there was a shelf full of them because the owner bought a pallet at a garage sale.
If I had known there was a floppy for it, I'd have asked for one. Our BASIC test code had to be typed back in if there was a power failure, or we had to get a "new" one off the shelf.
It didn't push to the computers; we loaded the program from floppy to the CoCo 3 and then for each CoCo 2 manually executed a cassette load from the CoCo 3 via the rotary link, but it worked and was much cheaper than equipping each client with its own storage.
Amazon didn't exist at that time (or was probably still only selling books). Digi-Key still had a $25 minimum order. RS was pretty much the only game in town if you were a high schooler with a small allowance.
OTOH, some items were surprisingly cheap. A couple years after college, I had a small business running out of a spare bedroom making temperature monitors and there was a shielded audio cable with connector that I used for the sensor. Radio Shack's price was about $1.50 each but all the "real" parts houses were at least 5x that.
I did controller software for blood (plasma) analysis instruments for over a decade. Vitamin D was actually one of the harder analytes to process. Now that I'm writing this, I don't even remember what was so hard about it. I vaguely remember issues with the reagents clumping together and being harder to separate before they could be properly mixed with the sample.
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