Excerpt from Piggyback Transportation for Pacific Northwest Cooperatives Several cooperative fruit and vegetable processors in the Pacific Northwest requested the Farmer Cooperative Service to study alternative methods of long distance shipments for their products particularly to midwestern markets. Special emphasis in this study was placed on exploring methods for develop ing more effective use of cooperatively-owned and operated motortrucks, stressing piggyback transportation of such equipment on railroad flatcars. Railroads offer five piggyback services at the present time. Briefly, Plan I is a single bill of lading movement of trailers of common carrier truckers on railroad flatcars. Plan II is an all railroad service offering complete door-to door service to the shipper. Plans III and IV are rail terminal to rail terminal services only. Under Plan III, shippers furnish the truck trailers and, under Plan IV, railroad flatcars as well. Rates are based on a flat charge per car, whether trailers are loaded or empty, and shippers perform their own pick-up and delivery. Plan V is a joint rail-truck arrangement under which each carrier performs a portion of the service from origin to final destination at published rates, the agreed division of which accrues to each carrier. As piggyback Plans III and IV utilize shipper's equipment to complete a door-to-door movement, these services were given primary consideration. Where utilization of shipper owned equipment is not an important considera tion, Plans 1, II, and V would bear further analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.