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The Florida shipments of fruits and vegetables to Portland, Oreg., 
and Seattle, Wash., were almost completely by rail. To these markets 
the excess of truck over rail charges was conspicuously higher than at 
the other far western markets studied here--Denver, Los Angeles, and 
San Francisco. It appears that this greater disadvantage in rates out- 
weighed any nonrate advantages of trucks, thus bringing Portland and 
Seattle into line with the typical relationship of higher rates to lower 
volume, and vice versa. 
