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Excerpt from Freight Classification: A Study of Underlying Principles Freight classification has had a gradual development. It has been recognized from the earliest days of turnpikes, different vehicles having been placed in different categories.1 The early canal companies carried this idea still farther by basing their rates somewhat upon the value of the service and assessing the heaviest tolls upon the most valuable goods.2 In some parts of this country freight was carried in the early days by wagon along turnpikes, at a toll, for each 100 miles carried, of 20 cents per cubic foot for light articles and $1 per 100 pounds for heavy articles. When the state legislatures granted charters to the early rail roads, they sometimes fixed maximum charges on this basis. The charter granted by South Carolina, in 1827, to the South Carolina Railroad provided that freight charges, per 100 miles, should not exceed 10 cents per cubic foot for light articles and 50 cents per 100 pounds for heavy articles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.