. Ports and terminal facilities . rm to certain rules and regulations which the port authoritiesmay deem for the good of the port. This does not eliminateprivate initiative at all. It is not necessary to go the full length of union carting andstore-door delivery. A teamsters act would suffice. One ofthe first things which a teamsters act would make possiblewould be the standardization of the cart, in particular the motortruck. It would be possible to introduce movable bodies of auniform size and design which would make possible the pre- • M. C. Horine, January, 1916, ^^International Marine Eng
. Ports and terminal facilities . rm to certain rules and regulations which the port authoritiesmay deem for the good of the port. This does not eliminateprivate initiative at all. It is not necessary to go the full length of union carting andstore-door delivery. A teamsters act would suffice. One ofthe first things which a teamsters act would make possiblewould be the standardization of the cart, in particular the motortruck. It would be possible to introduce movable bodies of auniform size and design which would make possible the pre- • M. C. Horine, January, 1916, ^^International Marine Engineering. CARTAGE 115 loading of the bodies and immediate dispatch of the motortruck from the loading platform (Figs. 32, 33). The operation of freight dispatching by removable bodieswould follow something like this procedure: Freight cars con-signed to the particular zone would come into the station duringthe night to be unloaded for morning delivery. It makes nomaterial difference just now if this station be pier or (Courtesy Brown Hoisting Mach. Co.) Fig. 32.—Illustrating the principle of the removable bodies on wheels, whichserve as hand-trucks for short distances, and carried loaded to waiting motortrucks. The freight is unloaded from the cars onto the small shed trucksor hand lorries illustrated in the pictures. One shed truckis one-half or one-third of a load. These platforms are labeledplainly with the mark and name of the consignee. The manysmall packages for several different consignees may be con-solidated for easy delivery into one hand truck according to theproximity of the addresses of the consignees. The shed trucksare then parked two rows to one aisle. When the motor truckscall for the delivery they do not come up to the head house atonce, but are met by a starter who takes the order for which 116 PORTS AND TERMINALS consignees the motor truck is calling, and gives the driver acall number just as the theatres and hotels do for shed t
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