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A very educated question Tim! 1. No, the shipper only need contact the serving carrier. 2. Who would get paid more would depend on the route and how the line haul revenue is divided. These are agreed upon percentages between the carriers. The routes are established to permit the car to move via the closest route. There's a lot you can elaborate on this, too! 3. The equipment owner would not receive more of the line haul revenue revenue just for owning the car. Car hire is a separate item based on time and mileage. Now there's a conversation topic as well!!!!! 4. Railroads communicate with each other electronically as well as through a paper trail. They also use Association of American Railroad computers. To move a car, there must be a waybill. That tells ops where and how the car is to move. Listed on the waybill are the origin, destination, route and any special instructions involved such as hazmat, do not hump, etc. Some waybills have the charges listed on them but that is not necessary to move the car. A copy of the waybill moves with the car so that each road, in turn knows how to handle it. Another copy is electronically transmitted to each road's accounting department. All revenue from a line haul move is settled by the destination carrier, even if the charges are prepaid by the shipper. In a case like that, the origin road collects the money and sends it direct to the destination road. The destination road then apportions it according based on the agreed to divisions of revenue. Each road keeps a record of the cars it handles and will trace the destination road if its revenue portion is not received. I believe they start tracing at three months, but I'm not sure, a lot has changed since I've been involved with that. Interline revenue and car hire records are matched to ensure that neither moneys due from transportation nor car hire are omitted, undercharged or overcharged. It's not a perfect system, but what is? It does allow the railroads to achieve a error rate within an acceptable range. This is a very broad topic and what's written here is hardly more than a name introduction. There are several sub-departments of the accounting departments devoted to these different facets.
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