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Car Service Rules 13-18 Car Hire Rule 19

Car Service Rules 13-18 Car Hire Rule 19. Matt Cox ACACSO May 9, 2013. Car Service Rule 13: Intentionally Not Used. We are off to a great start. From here the rules become more difficult to understand. Car Service Rule 14: Contaminating Commodities. Scope: Supports Car Grade System

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Car Service Rules 13-18 Car Hire Rule 19

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  1. Car Service Rules 13-18Car Hire Rule 19 Matt Cox ACACSO May 9, 2013

  2. Car Service Rule 13: Intentionally Not Used We are off to a great start. From here the rules become more difficult to understand.

  3. Car Service Rule 14: Contaminating Commodities Scope: • Supports Car Grade System • Segregates commodities shipped in railcars • Done for safety and customer satisfaction

  4. Car Service Rule 14: Contaminating Commodities Purpose: • Establishes Car Grades for various car types • Grades A & B – high grade box cars • C – rough freight box cars • K – possibly contaminated covered hoppers, and some box cars (sugar, shredded aluminum) • N & P – ruminant proteins in covered hoppers

  5. Car Service Rule 14: Contaminating Commodities Purpose: • Complements Ichg Rule 97 establishing inspection criteria for A and B box cars • Downgrades car after waybilled with K grade STCC (Circular OT-10 Rule 14 Appendix A) • STCC 4029114 municipal garbage waste – W grade is applied and becomes permanent

  6. Car Service Rule 15: Requests for Cars Scope: • Covers the ordering of railcars by customers and the minimum information required to process an order • Origin carrier has the first right to supply cars unless a tariff or specific law exists

  7. Car Service Rule 15: Requests for Cars Purpose: Defines the process for ordering freight cars Requests for cars are taken by the road that switches the customer Switching carrier provides shipper order for cars to the origin line haul carrier Origin line haul carriers are not obligated to supply privately marked cars if their own cars are available

  8. Car Service Rule 16: CSD 145 and 435 Assignment Scope: • Defines the assignment of railcars to specific shippers, commodities or agents • Allows railroads to better organize and manage cars with reverse routing, which is generally counter to Car Service Rules • Drives the assignment of TCs G, J and P and allows roads to assign cars to pools

  9. Car Service Rule 16: CSD 145 and 435 Assignment Purpose: • Establishes procedures for assignment, handling, empty car return, reporting of assignment and procedures for commodity and agent pools • Empty cars returning to assignment must not be held short unless instructed by assignee or held for repairs

  10. Car Service Rule 16: CSD 145 and 435 Assignment Purpose: Procedures for assigning cars is in the Umler™ Data Spec Manual https://www.railinc.com/rportal/web/guest/umlerreferences Umler pool assignment constitutes proper notice to AAR that criteria for assignment have been met

  11. Car Service Rule 17: Arbitration Committee Scope: • Names the AAR Safety and Operations Management Committee (SOMC) as the arbitration committee Note: Not to be confused with Car Hire Rule 17 pertaining to rate negotiation arbitration

  12. Car Service Rule 17: Arbitration Committee Purpose: • Signatories to the Car Service and Car Hire Agreement have a right to arbitration if questions or disputes arise • Either party requests arbitration, both parties submit abstracts within 30 days, then rebuttal within 30 days • SOMC likely works with EAC who then creates a TAG, parties in the arbitration are not on the TAG • Decision of committee is final

  13. Car Service Rule 18: Interpretations and Revisions Scope: • The Equipment Assets Committee informally interprets the Car Service Rules • The EAC acts as the committee on Car Service in these instances

  14. Car Hire Rule 19: Plenary Powers of Business Services (AAR) • Car Hire Rule 19 has an impact on and can be applied to Car Service Rules • Plenary defined: • Complete in every respect: Abolute, Unqualified (plenary power) • Fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present (a plenary session) • Synonyms: comprehensive, entire, full, grand, intact, integral, perfect, complete

  15. Car Hire Rule 19: Plenary Powers of Business Services (AAR) Scope: • AAR Board charged AAR with maximizing utilization consistent with equitable distribution • AAR supervises the application of car service and car hire rules • AAR issues embargoes and reroute orders, collects reports and statistics as needed • Upon investigation and arbitration by EAC, AAR can penalize a road for violations to AAR orders or directives

  16. Car Hire Rule 19: Plenary Powers of Business Services (AAR) Purpose: • Signatory roads agree to abide by AAR rules, orders and directives • CH Rule 19(g) defines procedure under which AAR can penalize • Cooperation between roads avoids use of this rule

  17. Questions? • https://www.railinc.com/rportal/alf_docs/Circulars/OT-10.pdf • Railinc Customer Support Center • Email: csc@railinc.com • Phone: 1-877-RAILINC(724-5462)

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