It has been a problem for a long time. By the very nature of the forest product industry, as you can imagine, the trees are not close to urban centres. Like grain and mining materials, they tend to be at the end of railway lines, or far out in remote areas.
The phrase we use is that we are captive customers. If you want to get resources like lumber and pulp out of a community, there may be a highway close to town, but the volume we're talking would take hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of trucks.