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Railway Age Weekly 1959 October 26 If I Sold Rail Service NYC Hershey
Railway Age Weekly 1959 October 26 If I Sold Rail Service
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Work-rule demands due Nov. 2 P. 9
Indications are that management will seek elimination of unneeded crew positions, revision of pay standards for train crews, and modification of rigid work separation rules. A leading industry spokesman says the railroads are ready to meet the featherbedding issue "head-on."
'Rude awakening' for truckers? p.13
That's what they're in for, says Commissioner Webb of the ICC, if they expect a return to the "soft competition" they enjoyed when they were an infant industry. The new rate-making rule, says Mr. Webb, means more competitive rate reductions and "a greater respect for managerial discretion."
Cover Story-11f I sold rail service' p.20
Here's what respondents to this month's Traffic Poll think would be most likely to improve the effectiveness and productivity of a railroad sales force.
Cover Story-Hershey ships 11,000 cars a year p.28
The chocolate manufacturer's annual freight bill comes to about $9,000,000, a large part of which goes to railroads.
Cover Story-Shippers like NYC's centralized pricing p.36
They like the objectives of the railroad's new streamlined rate bureau: faster service on rate problems, and more thorough rate analysis by specialists concentrated in a single location.
N&W hotbox detection pays off p.64
Credit for the road's excellent record-1,250,909 car-miles per hotbox in the first half of 1959-goes to a vigorous program of journal box servicing and the use of hotbox detectors.
Agreed charges, piggyback reflect new psychology p.68
The "new thinking" now taking hold in the industry will have an impact on cost analysis, sales techniques and operations, Railroad Transportation Institute is told.
The Action Page-Why so wary, Mr. Allen? p.74
This country's transportation is in an awful mess. The primary cause, of course, is government's discriminatory and improvident intervention in the business. The record of the Eisenhower administration in grappling with the situation.
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