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Most rate changes probably occur when producers shift from one dealer to 

 another. Five such shifts involving ten producers took place in 1935 in the 

 section. All producers but two secured lower rates. The average reduction was 

 fourteen cents; the two going to a higher rate had an average increase of ten cents 

 (Tables 7 and 8). 



Table 7. — Trucking Rates Paid by Marketing Period, 1935 



♦Producers in the market for full period. 



Occasionally rate adjustments are made by a dealer, and under such conditions 

 the effect of the change may be very pronounced to the producer and to the 

 market. One dealer increased his cartage rate 6}4 cents per hundredweight. 

 More producers were affected by this one move than by the shifting which went 

 on among the remaining producers and distributors in the section. 



Cartage rates are rarely sufficient cause for producers to change dealers. To 

 change dealers does not eliminate the rate, but for the most part merely puts it 



