This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...terminal to inform himself at any time as to the general situation. It is apparent on many roads that the report and record business--and especially the report--is overdone. This seems to be due to an increasing demand for information and the closer tracing of freight by shippers and traffic officers. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...terminal to inform himself at any time as to the general situation. It is apparent on many roads that the report and record business--and especially the report--is overdone. This seems to be due to an increasing demand for information and the closer tracing of freight by shippers and traffic officers. The easy abuse follows, by which department heads and officers ask for another report by wire, or-mail, or both, weekly, daily and oftimes at several specified times daily. The result is to demoralize and confuse the organization and overload the local forces with a mass of detail apparently serving no good end. It prevents the local operating head from receiving the information he needs in his business. As he cannot secure a considerable increase in clerical and other forces, without being able to show a corresponding increase in traffic to justify it, the business of the terminal suffers. All the information asked for in the special and additional reports is usually already made up and sent in, in some form or other, but is perhaps not readily and conveniently abstracted, or is not known to be at hand by the clerk in charge. In any event it seems easier to wire the superintendent or yardmaster for it. When such additional demands for information are made, a general revision of the entire system of reports, cutting out five or six that are going in and substituting one or two simplified forms, will in many cases accomplish the desired result and enable a reduction of clerical work at the terminal, instead of necessitating an increased force. It will also enable the superintendent to get more result-producing work out of his subordinates. When that ideal condition is reached in a terminal where no questions need be asked, special reports...
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