11-27-2009, 10:25 PM
Let's say we have a shortline that has a small fleet of boxcars. We keep the empties on a storage track near an industrial park that we deliver cars to. In the industrial park, we have a customer R who receives goods by boxcar, and customer S who ships goods by boxcar.
Goods were delivered to R in a foriegn road boxcar and now the boxcar is empty. S is needing a boxcar for loading and the load needs to be shipped back to the foriegn road. Our shortline has empty boxcars on the storage track. Would we take the foriegn road boxcar over to S for loading since the load is going back that way anyway or would we use one of our shortline's empty boxcars? Would we get more revenue by using our own car?
Goods were delivered to R in a foriegn road boxcar and now the boxcar is empty. S is needing a boxcar for loading and the load needs to be shipped back to the foriegn road. Our shortline has empty boxcars on the storage track. Would we take the foriegn road boxcar over to S for loading since the load is going back that way anyway or would we use one of our shortline's empty boxcars? Would we get more revenue by using our own car?
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