Simple System of Calculating Chargeable Distances
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rrHE Commission points out that, in
many ways, the scheme embodies new features, but is devised as an advance upon existing practice, rather than as an entirely new system. • The overriding consideration is that, wherever practicable, the principles are to be common to all three services.
What the Commission describes as "loading capability will largely determine the classification of individual commodities. Points to be taken into consideration are the quantity capable
of being loaded on a normal operating unit, "stowage potential," suitability. of a commodity for loading with other goods, cost of handling, risk of damage or loss, and, lastly, value.
Scales will be provided for different weights of consignment up to the "potential loading" of a traffic in a normal operating unit. In the classification, the rates for each traffic will be shown beside the traffic and will vary according to the weight of a consignment. The lowest scale will be for a weight that would fill a normal unit.
Scales for road and rail traffic will be on a door-to-door basis, with appropriate charges by rail for station and siding traffic in consignments of a ton and over. Rates quoted will be the gross figures to be charged.
Goods will be conveyed according to the terms of the contract. Scales of charges will be devised for collection or delivery by road of traffic to or from station, . wharf or depot, where these services are required outside the contract for conveyance. Certain traffics that are difficult or objectionable to handle -will be collected or delivered only by special arrangement.