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Express Service and Rates, The by W H Chandler 1914 Hard Cover 404 pages.
The Express Service and Rates by W H Chandler 1914 Hard Cover 404 pages. BINDING/ Cover loose. All pages still bound together.
PREFACE
There will be found in this work reproductions of various tariffs which are used by permission of the express companies.
Up to the present time the express companies have made no charge for tariffs, although the Interstate Commerce Commission has stated that they might very properly make a charge which would represent the actual cost of printing. The reader will therefore understand that these tariffs are reproduced because of the difficulty he might experience in obtaining them and in order that he may understand how the tariffs are constructed. Unless these tariffs were included in this treatise the reader would be unable to understand a large part of the text and without them he could not obtain a sufficiently comprehensive idea of their structure (so necessary in the application of the principles set forth herein to actual
I practice) to enable him, as the head of a transportation department, to execute properly the work he would be constantly called upon to perform; therefore, the inclusion of this text is not only instructive but actually necessary under the circumstances.
Many joint express tariffs are published by Mr. F. G. Airy, Agent for the Express Companies, New York City.
The rates shown herein should not be relied upon for use on shipments tendered to express carriers without first being confirmed by the express agent. With this general understanding it will not be necessary to indicate in each chapter that the rates must not be used without confirmation.
Under the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act any tariff may be changed upon giving thirty days' notice to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Frequently additions and supplements to tariffs are necessary by reason of the changing conditions. The names of stations, for example, are changed ; errors are frequently discovered; additions, particularly to commodity tariffs, are found to be necessary in order to cover new business offered to the express carriers ; and changes are frequently made in order that discriminations may be corrected, or in order to meet new conditions which constantly arise.
Under the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission the rates effective February 1, 1914, are to remain in effect two years ; therefore, the tariffs and classifications which show these rates should remain more stable than commodity tariffs, which were not included in the investigation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It may be found that there are certain minor errors in the order of the Commission, such as the incorrect spelling of station names. Other corrections will be necessary by reason of the change in the names of stations, and possibly some rates may be found out of line, which the Commission will authorize the express companies to modify.
A careful perusal of these tariffs will enable the reader to obtain a good general idea of express rates, but, wherever it is possible for him to do so, he should examine the public files of express tariffs, as they will enable him to understand better the different forms of express issues. It is obviously impossible in a work of this size to illustrate all or even the principal forms of commodity tariffs.
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