For bulk cargo, nothing on land will beat trains for efficiency.

As far as scheduling, you could complain to whoever owns the tracks, but since for the most part the rail companies are in charge of maintaining their own tracks, they have a strong incentive to keep them as full as possible. And I would hardly think of 10:10am as an inconvenient time, considering that in Northern Virginia, with far worse traffic, road construction on my stretch of highway starts at 9:30am on the dot.