Business & Finance: Store, Door, Uproar

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Last week when Pennsylvania began its store-door service, it had contracts with trucking concerns in some 2,000 communities. The truckmen, acting as its agents, will pick up goods, take them to the station and at their rail destination deliver them to consignees. But the shipper will deal only with the railroad, pay only one charge. For shipments of 260 mi. or less (the zone in which trucks compete most effectively) the store-door rate will be precisely the same as the present station-to-station freight rate. Beyond the 260-mi. zone there is an additional charge ranging up to 12¢ per cwt. for 360 mi. or more —6¢ for collection, 6¢ for delivery.