[bwilliams18]

Maybe I'm totally unaware, but don't trucking, air freight and sea freight have the same problems w/ regards to weight requirements and movement of goods in transit? Is this not a solved problem? Build Hyperloop Freight to fit a ULD and we're all set no?

[notahacker]

As the article notes, goods would move a lot more when they're subjected to the G-forces of a hyperloop than the occasional rolling of a ship or even much milder G-forces of an aircraft taking off, which they have to be packed pretty carefully for as is. And whilst all transport methods have a weight limit and some degree of load-balancing requirement, it's much more of a restriction for the load of a capsule fired at supersonic speed through a curving tube that has to resist forces imposed upon it than a bigger lorry chugging along at a sedate 60mph.

[jdmichal]

Container ships will have a dozen plus containers loaded across. Even if all the cargo shifted to one side of each container, the general balance of the vessel would remain roughly the same.