car service rules – 1 thru 6 acacso spring meeting may, 2008 chicago, il
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Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6
ACACSO Spring Meeting
May, 2008
Chicago, IL
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Car Service Rules:
The basic reason for the rules is to provide the railroad marked car owner with protection of its freight car assets and provide a framework for maximizing freight car utilization in North America.
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Car Service Rules:
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Car Service Rules:
The Rules do not prevent subscribers from entering into other agreements which may differ from the rules.
Bi-lateral agreements supersede the rules.
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Rule 1: Loading of Empty Foreign Cars
Purpose:
Unless Covered by a Special Car order or Car Service directive, allows for loading or reloading box cars, gondolas and flat cars, to any destination, without the need to contact the car owner.
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Car Service Rules:Rules, Directives, Orders
Car Service Rules
Car Service Directives
Special Car Orders
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Rule 2: Empty Foreign Cars Not
Needed for Loading
Purpose:
Promotes expedient return of empty freight cars to car owners without the need to gain permission from other railroads to accept empty cars moving to home rails
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Rule 2: Empty Foreign Cars Not
Needed for Loading OPTIONS - DIRECT CONNECTIONS •Deliver to the car owner at any junction.
•Deliver to a direct connection of the car owner at the junction where car was received as a loaded shipment
•Cannot reverse the car to a road that is not a direct connection.
•Must deliver owner’s car when at a junction with the car owner.
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Rule 2: Empty Foreign Cars Not
Needed for Loading OPTIONS - INDIRECT CONNECTIONS •Reverse route to the junction where received.
OPTIONS - SWITCH SERVICE •Reverse route to the trunk line unless at a junction with the car owner.
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Rule 4: Car Flow Balancing
PURPOSE:
Allows for central voluntary administration by AAR for flowing empty freight cars owned by the participants under a predetermined formula to balance car supply.
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Rule 5: Boxcars Moving Under
49 CFR 1039.14
PURPOSE:
Unless a railroad has it’s own tariff for handling empty freight cars it may choose to charge the U.S. dollar amount specified in the rule ($.62 per mile) for cars moving out of their car service route
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Rule 6: Demand for the Return of
Empty Cars to Original Junction
PURPOSE:
Allows a railroad to plan for return of freight cars at a specified junction.
Cannot be invoked for bad order cars returning home for repairs.