Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-07 | Page 5 | Better Carrier Methods Urged

BETTER CARRIER METHODS Y 11 URGED WASHINGTON June 7 UP UPsweeping UP- UP changes in rate structures sweeping s r ff tad IDd methods of oC computing them dr drastic Uc changes in types of ot equip- equip ent and sharp rearrangement of ot r were recommended to the live nations nation's railroads today b by Joseph Josephj B j g E Eastman transportation 5 ator Eastman's report severely critic c ed present rail practices It I en- en eventual development of a I I coordinated transportation system Including all an forms torms of oC travel Eastman said the report was prepared pre pre- wired pared after fter a year two survey by byIs bis organizations organization's Is section of oC transportation trans trans- p service The report covered all forms ms of ot 11 transport Including rails water cart cari carriers car car- t i tiers fier highway carrIers and pipe 1 1 1 lines j f Methods of oC handling frei freight ht and andt t cars in terminals ls came in for special spes s ape ape- cial vial censure from the coordinator 1 i Economy in n rail yard service hasI has I been sacrificed to attain economy Jn in road rod movement by heavy train loading Eastman said with the f f f result that yard costs are greater i costs The terminal costs cf of f rail and water carlot carrot carriers far exceeds that of other carriers and andIs Is about the cost of oC highway ervice i Another recommendation was that that bat many short lines with their way trains be replaced by motor trucks Mucks This type of operation he said sid which partakes largely of ot col- col and delivery handled about lIper iper cent of ot the revenue movement but bat was was' responsible for 28 per cent of cf the total cost f The report praised development Work pork already done on railway cars r with ith multiple sets of ot containers would be interchangeable between be- be tween railway waterway and highway highway high- high rVay way vehicles Eastman suggested that If It such I. I II unit were brought Into general use IIse it would improve trans porta- porta lion tion service reduce its cost and discourage uneconomic distribution of f traffic I In connection with equipment the report said rail transportation could be te improved and Its cost reduced particularly In distributive opera opera- by substituting small pow- pow i red light trains of a few cars for lor continental al trains of cargo type The present system of freight transport charges should be L li to meet conditions which have resulted from the ability of the to provide his own transportation transportation trans trans- r t the report said with reference refI reference ref ref- I to rates f r The ph price scale should vary with 1 the size of the shipment from a ton tonto tonto l to a trainload permitting shipments in any amount but creating an In Incentive incentive In- In for tor full lull instead of minimum loading I The report added that tariff complexity complexity com com- could be greatly reduced if rate systems and publishing authorities au au- I were wee unified d and comI commodity com com- classifications and carriers' carriers route groups were simplified into t a limited number of at definite channels chan chan- nels Competition between different forms of transportation in so far as It ft stimulates service efficiency and conomy economy should be promoted the k report said but the evils of unrestrained t strained agency price market and plant c competition need to be I avoided