The Delivery and Handling of Miscellaneous Freight at the Boston Freight
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2024
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Print on Demand. This book examines the operational inefficiencies of freight terminals and rail yards in early 20th century Boston. The author, a researcher from MIT, conducted extensive studies of numerous freight yards in the Boston area, with input from teamsters and railroad employees, including an analysis of over 2,000 inbound and outbound shipments to and from the city's largest freight terminals. The study found that these terminals operated at maximum capacity for only 1-2 hours per day, resulting in excessive wait times for teamsters. The author argues that these inefficiencies could be reduced by improving communication between railroad workers and teamsters, increasing the number of available doors for loading and unloading freight, and encouraging the use of sorting gangs to keep freight organized within terminals. The author concludes that these relatively simple changes could significantly improve the efficiency of freight terminals and reduce the time wasted by teamsters, which would ultimately benefit both the railroad companies and those who rely on them. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.…
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- The Delivery and Handling of Miscellaneous Freight at the Boston Freight
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- Harold Pender, H. F. Thomson
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- Forgotten Books
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- 2024
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- New
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- print-on-demand item
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- English
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- 1333172958
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- 9781333172954
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The system Of memorandum checks referred to above and several times in the following discussion, is used to enable consignees who expect freight to Obtain it as soon as it is placed in the freight house, without waiting for the regular delivery check to be completed and racked. A teamster is permitted to enter the freight house and look for such freight, knowing approximately where it is likely to be located. After finding the freight he may then go to the cashier's Office and Obtain a check called a memorandum check, and the freight will be surrendered by the delivery clerk upon presentation Of this check. This system, although it requires the driver to spend more time at the freight house, is of considerable advantage to consignees in cases Of error on the de livery check or Of delay in the arrival Of the waybill causing the agent's Office delay in making out the delivery check.
Time Spent by Wagons in Freight Yards. It was desired first to find the percentage of the day spent in the freight yards by the average teamster Of large trucking concerns handling miscellaneous freight. Observations made for twenty-one days on the one and two-horse trucks Of two Of the largest master teamsters in the city showed that these wagons spent approximately one-third Of the working day in the freight yards.
Figs. 2 and 3 show graphically the results from these Observations. AS seen by these plots the teams spent approximately one-third of the working day in the railroad yard. The conditions at the freight terminals, therefore, largely influence the amount Of work that can be done by teams doing this class Of hauling.
These Observations also showed that the delay per day experienced at the warehouses, or stores, was actually greater than the delay due to congestion in the railroad yards. By delay as used throughout this paper is meant lost or idle time on the part Of the wagon driver. The delay in the case Of freight being delivered to the warehouse usually arises from the necessity Of waiting for platform space or for the use Of an elevator. The delay at the warehouse in the case Of freight being loaded is due chiefly to the fact that frequently the goods are not ready for shipment at the time that the teamster calls.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
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