Freight Classification (Volume 1-2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII RULES AND REGULATIONS (Continued). 1. Prohibited And.restricted Articles In certain classes of articles, the carriers' risk is so great that they either refuse to accept them at all for transportation by freight or accept them only under the most stringent regulations, as the rules relative to bulk freight, freight of a damaging nature, high explosives, and articles of extraordinary value will illustrate. (a) Bulk Freight in Less-Than-Carload Lots Im the rules of each of the three classifications it is stated that bulk freight will not be taken in less than carloads unless so specified in the classification. (See Official, Rule 8-A; Western, Rule 19; Southern, Rule 36.) The term "bulk freight" is applied to such articles as coal, grain, and sand, not in bags, barrels, boxes, or other packages or receptacles; and it is obvious that less-thancarload shipments of articles in bulk cannot be accepted for transportation, inasmuch as they are not confined and would shift all over the car, probably damaging other freight. Freight of this kind requires an entire car and, as will be shown in the treatment of the rule relative to excess carloads, when a shipper of bulk freight has an excess over a full car, he must put the overflow in packages in order to obtain the part-lot rate accorded such shipments. (b) Freight of a Damaging Nature Rule 20 of the Official Classification and Rule 4 of the Western and Southern classifications are as follows: The ratings in this classification do not obligate the carriers to receive freight liable to impregnate or otherwise damage equipment or other freight. Such freight may be accepted and receipted for "Subject to delay for suitable equipment," or may, for lack of suitable equipment, be refused. Articles such as chem...