Dallas:
Reassigning the destination is a very common practice in the lumber
business, and supported by the RR. Lumber is a graded commodity and
the movement of it is normally connected to a sale. The
grower/producer or lumber broker would bill a car to someplace, -any
place- in the general direction of a potential final consumer/buyer.
While on route the broker would contact his customers and when they
reached a deal the broker would reassign the car from is original
'any where destination' to the specific buyer's location. If the car
moved faster than the broker could make a sale there could be more
then one 'destination' given to the car. Without a buyer the broker
would keep the car moving around so long as the freight costs did
not exceed his profits. The broker always wanted the car to move as
slow as possible until he made the sale. Then he would be pushing us
to get the car moving faster. ^|^
If there is a RR lumber marketing guy reading this they could tell
you more. I was an Ag Products guy, but we understood each others
markets - to a degree.
Jack Schroeder
CBQ/BN/BNSF - Ft. Worth marketing guy
817 485-1922
jack@highlandwebworks.com
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On 4/12/2021 4:52 PM, Dallas Giddens
wrote:
As an extra clerk in St Joe in the 1960’s I worked as a
reconsigning clerk several times. Grain and lumber kept at least a
half dozen of us busy re-billing cars that were sometimes resold
multiple times in route. I was amazed at all this shuffling and
still don’t understand how this could have been cost effective.
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