Gloria Minor to John Myers on Southern Pacific Contract Rate Increase for Asbestos Shipments, King City to Nogales, AZ (1984)

A Union Carbide internal memo from Corporate Transportation Services to the King City Metals Division reports that the Southern Pacific rail rate for asbestos shipments to Nogales, AZ (then to Mexico City) rose from 2.30 to 2.42 cwt. effective 1/1/84. The memo is followed by Southern Pacific's December 28, 1983 rate-adjustment letter to Union Carbide, a rate sheet, and a contract summary for ICC-SP-C-1123.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Internal memo, Gloria Minor to John Myers, Jan. 18, 1984, on S.P. Contract ICC-SP-C-1123 rate increase, with handwritten freight calculations
• Page 2: Letter, B. E. Transano (Southern Pacific) to Raymond E. Tully (Union Carbide), Dec. 28, 1983, on first-quarter 1984 rate adjustment
• Page 3: Attached Southern Pacific contract rate sheet, printed upside down/rotated and largely unreadable in OCR
• Page 4: Contract summary for ICC-SP-C-1123 with Southern Pacific, commodity asbestos shorts in bags

People and organizations

From Gloria Minor (Corp. Transportation Services) to John Myers (Metals Division, King City, CA).

• Gloria Minor (author)
• John L. Myers (recipient)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Interstate Commerce Commission (named)
• Metals Division (named)
• Southern Pacific Transportation Co (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-489 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 4 pages.