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Jill Ssught To
Reduce Rad Rates
Bills Nos. E. 3243 and H.R. 11583 which are before Congress, will enable railroads to reduce their rates nearly 509r> stay in business, and put money in your pocket if passed. Sounds odd doesn’t it? Here is the way it will work, according to an explanation made by representatives of the Southern Railway System, who were in Rappahannock this week for the purpose of explaining the bills (both are identical) to farmers.
The Interstate Commerce Commission, created under laws 50-60
rs old, which at that time protected consumer interests, establishes both minimum and maximum hauling rates on freight transported by rail or by legal trucking concerns.
Today the illegal trucker, and private barge concerns, whose rates are not governed by I.C.C., are competing with railroads and legal truck transporters and making it rough for them.
In their effort to stay in business, railroads for several years, have studied ways and means of reducing their costs. These studies, coupled with determined effort, have been fruitful. Examples are laying of “ribbon rails” in 1,400 foot sections and construction of aluminum cars called “Big Johns.”
The “Big Johns,” according to Frank M. Kaylor, Superintendent Continued on page five
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