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Car Service Rules – 1 thru 6 ACACSO Spring Meeting May, 2008 Chicago, IL. 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 – 1 thru 6 ACACSO Spring Meeting May, 2008 Chicago, IL
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
