4. What is your understanding of class rates?
5. What are commodity rates, and what factors usually govern the establishment of a commodity rate?
6. By whom are rates prepared, and by what body must they be approved before they become effective?
7. Explain how the routing of a shipment may be influenced by the existence of a commodity rate.
8. If called upon to organize a shipping department for a manufacturing concern in Dayton, Ohio, whose product is shipped to all parts of the United States, what steps would you take to secure freight tariffs?
9. Outline a system for filing these tariffs.
10. What index would be required?
11. If shipments were confined to cities of 10,000 population, or over, in two states, how would you arrange a rate file covering these towns only?
12. How would you keep a record of the classifications of the goods shipped by your house?
13. Describe the method you would use for recording commodity rates applying to your product.