Word: carloading
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...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...
...railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...
...this instance the screws were being put on old Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio by Frederick Williamson's New York Central. The screwdriver was Universal Carloading & Distributing Co., biggest operating subsidiary of the biggest freight forwarding company in the land, U. S. Freight Co. Universal's business consists of collecting small freight shipments at strategically located terminals, consolidating the assorted packages into carload lots, dispatching the loaded cars to another Universal terminal, where the carload is unscrambled, the goods delivered to their respective consignees...
...profit a forwarding company looks solely to the spread between the lower freight rate on full car shipments and the higher rate on less-than-carload lots ("l.c.l."). In practice the forwarding companies charge something less than the going l.c.l. rates, which makes their service more attractive to shippers than ordinary railroad service. Last year U. S. Freight took in about $40,000,000 from shippers, paid out in actual transportation charges about $32,000,000, most of which went to the railroads. Handling the innumerable small pieces of freight cost another $7,000,000, and when...
...hands of a railroad a freight forwarding company is not only a means of getting business for itself but also an effective weapon to use on competitors. Through, its routing power, a freight forwarder may divert its carload shipments from one road to another. That, the I. C. C. discovered last week, was precisely what Universal was currently doing. The business it used to give to Baltimore & Ohio was being diverted as rapidly as possible to Pennsylvania...