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By CHRISLLOYD

A. desperate “attempt to
-keep the’ grain. flowing. to
_- North Shore terminals while.
_— | | _ . » | -rail traffic ig at-a standstill

eo me _ was launched’ this week ‘by’
the Canadian Wheat ‘Board

' Second Narrows Bridge.

The  throigh-the-night
trucking Operation: began
‘Monday afternoon, with 140°
truck loads.of grain, totalling
1,400: tonnes . moved ‘to
Saskatchewan ‘Wheat Pool
by the following morning.

_ The truck convoy scheme
is being labelled from the-
outset as a one-week ex-
periment .and nobody is

- crisis. facing . North . Van
terminals or begin to make

' {--up for the rail foads that
| normally supply the

Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

But with the -Second
Narrows Rail bridge. still
. unusable since October
when a tanker_collided with
it and now the B.C. Rail line
shut down by a labor
dispute, the trucks appear to
be the only hope of con-

tinuing operations of
shipping grain from _ the
North Shore.

The experiment comprises
eight trucks carting grain
from the three terminals on

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with truckloads .of wheat’
being driven over the -

pretending it will solve the.

- the south “shore over ‘the
bridge from 4 p.m. to 8.a.m..

daily in an attempt to meet
contracts . fr
‘Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

“Canadian Wheat Board.

Manager Ed Isaac told the

- News he thought’ Monday's.
operation went “reasonably -
well”. but, added that. he-

thought it’ would still only
. continue for the one-week
experimental. period
originally decided.-

‘It's not. a long term

thing,” he .said,: “and we'll. -

have to review the matter in
the new year.”

However, Doug Larson,
the president of the newly
constructed Pioneer Grain
Terminal which is scheduled
to begin.exporting in January
but has no wheat in stock, is
hoping that if the BCR strike
is prolonged the trucking
will continue and his. ter-

minal will also be able to

receive grain.
_NOTENOUGH .

But, Isaac said: “I doubt
whether on a _ trucking
operation it would be

t

“possible to move enough to

‘keep either one of them (the.

meet two North Van terrninals) _
from ‘the’ — me

going full-blast.

‘The'grain being shipped'to

the. Saskatchewan: ‘Pool.--is: oa
.Durham. wheat; whichis ‘not:

handled.-by the south shore: _
terminals as they do not have ~
facilities «for. drying “this _ .
specialtypeofwheat. —-  -_:

Pioneer will also be ~
equipped. to .handle. -the ™..

_* Durham grain.

Isaac is not predicting the

additional. costs involved in.
trucking the grain over the
bridge; saying~ simply — that.

there -is the cost of ‘the ~~
_ trucking, as well as double

handling: ...

But the costs would seem
to be dmong the least of the
problems. As he says: “We
have sales on our books, we:

‘have the ships and we have

all kinds of railcars here (on
the south shore).

“But we have.one grain
terminal (Saskatchewan)
virtually shut down and
another new one (Pioneer)

whichcannotopenup.” —

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