Load Em Up, Move Em Out

TRUCKlfil'AtofUG in 1916 was something else. Among the missing items: windshield and windows, doors and fenders to name a few. Plus the absence of any safety equipment at all. Laguna Beach Lumber Co., whose name appears on the building in the background is very much alive and well in the California town of the same name. As for where the truck is, your guess is as good as oun.

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(Continued from page P) car approaching its theoretical capacity. There is not only an advantage to the shipper but also to the railroad which realizes better car utilization, increasing availability, reducing equipment inventory needs.

Union Pacific has introduced cars that enable lumber' men to take advantage of capacity loading. One is the dunnage- and strap-free center beam flatcar. Another is a 2th' stelch of a "standatd" 50' boxcar that accommo' dates 39 4x8 plywood units vs. 36 in the standard. Extrawide doon also make these cars attractive to customers. The sturdy bulkhead flatcar continues to be in demand by shippers.

UP, with one of the youngest car fleets in the country, has more than 2,500 such specialized cars plus another 2,000 ordinary flatcars which can be used for lumber loading.

Services to lumber customers include diversion and milling-in-transit privileges and opportunity for storagein-transit at Freeport Center.

This sprawling. warehousing and distribution organization on UP lines at Clearfield, between Salt Lake City and Ogden, offers lumber shippers not only inventory tax advantages but also storage and re-shipment arrangements to absorb off-peak production at the mills.

It takes such new cars and facilities and imaginative shipping ideas, say UP railroaders, to maintain their road's position as a leader in the increasingly competitive transportation of forest and construction products'

GIANT GYPSUM ore carrier, the Trailblazer, Gold Bond Building Products' newest ocean-going gypsum ore carrier, can carry up to 26,000 tons of crushed gypsum rock; enough to keep a wallboard plant operating for over a month. The 584' long, 85' wide ship will deliver about one million tons of gypsum rock to Gold Bond West coast gypsum wallboard plana in Long Beach and Richmond, Ca. in 1978. Christened in Japan in January, it transports raw gypsum rock from mines in San Marcus lsland, Mexico. The vessel has a 9000 hp. diesel engine and a bow thruster, side mounted propeller, which facilitates harbor maneuvering and reduces tug-boat useage. lt features an automatic ore unloading system that deliven up to 2000 tons of rock per hour.

New Cars lor SP RR

San Francisco-based Southem Pacific RR is placing orders now with manufacturers for 5,000 new railroad box cars. The company says the cost will run approximately $ 180 million.

The cars will be 50', plain doubledoor box cars and meet "shipper requirements for transcontinental markets," according to company spokesmen. They noted that "the great disruption of the nation's freight car fleet because of this year's severe winter storms and the coal strike has kept many of our cars from getting back to our lines for further loading."

SP is also planning a maintenance and rebuilding program that will total $374 million.

Distributors Convention

In the peaceful setting of Florida's Innisbrook Resort, well over 600 at the National Building Material Distributor Association's spring convention heard economist Thomas B. Stiles II give a picture of an economy growing at a slower rate than last year but not an economy that was going to tum down to any marked degree.

Industry security consultant, Bob Curtis, talking on "Management Style: A Key to Employee Relations," went into full detail on how management style will affect employee performance. The more authoritarian an employer is, the less loyalty he will receive from his staff, thereby increasing the risk of employee theft.

The next NBMDA convention is set for November 12-15, 1978 atthe Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, which is expected to draw more than 200 manufacturers.