Sentence examples for carload freight from inspiring English sources

Of the less than carload freight, more than two-thirds was diverted from the railroads to motortrucks.

It is said that it was established by undisputed evidence that the team tracks and freight sheds provided by the carriers were fully adequate for all carload freight.

The adequacy of the public terminal facilities for carload freight in Los Angeles (consisting of the team tracks and freight sheds of the carriers respectively), the facts set forth with respect to the construction of the spur tracks, their location, the acquiescence in the switching charge and its maintenance, were established before the Commission, it is alleged, by undisputed evidence.

At team tracks and freight sheds no charge is imposed for the receipt or delivery of such carload freight over the freight rate named in the tariffs, while at industry spurs an additional charge of $2.50 is imposed on every loaded car moving either in or out.

Its service, involving as it does the transportation of all carload freight moving in interstate commerce between the industries concerned and all railroad and steamship lines reaching the port, is of the same character, though wider in scope, as that held to be common carriage by rail in interstate commerce in the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal and the Union Stockyards Co. Cases.

Again, it is said that the Commission did not find the switching charge in itself, that is, taken separately, to be unreasonable, but the inquiry was whether, in view of the conditions of the distribution of the carload freight through a large area, there was in fact such a similarity of movement as to negative the basis for a separate charge.

The less-than-carload freight has been soft, says Kress, who points out that the figures for industrial production, finished goods and the inventory-to-sales ratio have also been lukewarm.

With increasing competition from trucks and automobiles in the 1920s, passenger volume began to decline along with less-than-carload freight, such as milk from the many dairy farms along the Ma and Pa's pastoral route.

Railroads transported 565 million passengers and 14.2 million carloads of freight last year.

"As the economy shifts online, rail transportation is playing a huge role behind the scenes to get goods to warehouses and to people's doorsteps," says Tom Schnautz, assistant vice president for advanced train control technology at Norfolk Southern, a railroad that in 2017 transported 7.6 million carloads of freight that reached nearly half of all Americans.

Nearly 1.3 million carloads of freight and 1 million intermodal rail traffic units, which are trailers and containers that can be loaded directly on flat cars, were shipped in June.