Rocket surgeon or CWB Director? You decide.

[TOM4CWB]

katoe,

Who exactly paid for and constructed the elevator with the 50 or 112 hopper car spot... growers or elevator owners?

When CN/CP reduces freight by $8/t... who loads the rail cars in the time specified... by CN/CP...no matter when... on the weekend... holidays... whenever...do the growers who delivered the grain to the elevator load the cars?

Katoe... what planet do you come from?

[jdepape]

katoe:

Farmers are not being overcharged. The amount they get deducted is the amount it would cost them if they were shipping their own car.

If the elevator company can satisfy the requirements to load 100 cars in a block (and unload them all at one terminal), then they qualify for the lower rate based on efficiencies - efficiencies that a single farmer could not achieve on his own.

So to answer your question, NO, the "trucking incentive" is NOT farmers getting back their own money BECAUSE they were NOT overcharged in the first place.