Rocket surgeon or CWB Director? You decide.

[bucket]

So now the truth comes out, the cwb can't accomodate the premium Japanese market.

[Burbert]

Wow you guys/gals simply amaze me, with your in depth analysis of grain sales. Sit back and analyze, get the facts and figures, then pronounce the CWB a culprit each and every time. Me, myself, and I wit my home computer coulda done way better than that, cause I'm a legend in my own mind. I saw that coming, after it happened1 wOW WHAT INSIGHT............

[jdepape]

To Mr. stubblejumper:

No need to get personal. I just wanted to let people know that Mr. Woods is mistaken concerning how rail rates are set.

According to his bio on the CWB website, "He was a key organizer of the first ever producer car unit train and a founding member of the West Central Road & Rail Ltd."

As a unit train shipper he should know this stuff.

You may not like what I wrote, but if it's BS, then I suggest you talk to Woods and the RRs. Woods is the one who apparently said what he is quoted as saying in the Cooperator and the RRs are the ones that set the rates - not me.

Don't worry about not being able to defend Mr. Woods - it's not up to you anyway.

[katoe]

So in fact the grain co trucking incentive is farmers getting back their own money for which they were overcharged in the first place. right?

[bucket]

I haven't even seen one of those rocket kits with the cwb logo on it, so there are no rocket surgeons at the cwb.

The cwb does need a good housecleaning though and now that they are at 100 percent called, they could start laying off staff.

[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.