I don't want to make things too confusing, but don't
get things mixed up. In diversion, the shipper
consigns the load (with a bill of lading and a
waybill) to themselves at some distant point. Before
the load gets there, it is sold and a new destination
and consignee are shown on the waybill and BoL.
Storage in transit works somewhat the same way. Again
the car is billed to a distant point and the railroad
holds it until it is billed to it's final destination.
The railroad charges a fee for this "in transit
privilege". In both cases the car has billing. A no
bill car is moved on a "slip way bill" or a switchlist
to a holding track, pending sale of the coal, lumber,
grain, etc. and the car's consignment.
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- Russell Strodtz <vlbg@p...> wrote:
> Leo,
>
> That's right, most of the tracks at Casey and Teague
> are leased
> for the storage of plastic loads and empties. What
> I was
> refering to was places like Tulsa where some of the
> shippers
> tried to use yard space to hold cars for billing.
> Even at
> Prairie Du Chien Fina leases one car length of the
> Westward
> siding to hold a single inbound car until 3M wants
> it.
>
> Some trucking companies have even set up reload
> centers,
> (like at Lorenzo where they even have a locomotive),
> and
> this suits the RR just fine. Lot of private
> trackage that
> does not interfere with other customers.
>
> This is straying away from the "Q". Before their
> time.
>
> Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <qutlx1@a...>
> To: <BRHSlist@Y...>
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 July, 2002 21:05
> Subject: [BRHSlist] No Bills
>
>
> > John, I'm familiar with the long standing practice
> of billing a car to
> some
> > distant destination and then diverting it enroute
> while you brokered or
> sold
> > it. Didn't know these were refered to as no bills.
> Belief lumber,produce
> and
> > meat were often handled in this manner. And as you
> mention coal. Wasn't
> this
> > sometimes referred to as storage in transit? I
> remember loads of flour
> being
> > routed to kingdom and then back in this way.
> > Russ,It's my understanding that the bulk of the
> platic loads rest in SIT
> > (Storage in Transit)Yards and then are billed out
> to destination. For
> example
> > Equistar at Morris does this w/the 'J' at Joliet.
> It's really BIG in
> Houston.
> > SIT yards. everywhere.
> > Leo
> >
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