Ancillary charges are not for the movement of freight, they are costs that, in many cases, the shipper need not pay but often decides to anyway. Take freight cars, for example. A shipper has 24 or 48 hours to unload a car at no charge. If he takes a week to do it because he has decided to use the car as a parking or storage facility, that is when we bill for its use. The costs are not required most of the time. If he unloaded the cars during the time when they were free, the costs...
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