Commodity Protective Service

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Protective service is used by the rail industry to communicate temperature and ventilation requirements for one or more commodities that are being transported. You can identify a maximum of five commodity IDs for protective service, and each commodity can be assigned a sequence number.

Typical commodity protective service codes are as follows:

• D - Discontinue Service
• HDN - Do Not Heat
• HDNC - Do Not Heat in Canada
• HSC - Standard Heating in Canada
• M - Standard Mechanical Protective Service
• MN - Modified Mechanical Protective Service
• MNU - Do Not Operate

Typical commodity protective service rule codes are as follows:

• 225 - Icing Code: Stop for Icing
• 240 - Icing Code: Initially Iced By Shipper - Do Not Re-Ice
• 242 - Icing Code: Top Iced By Shipper At Origin (Intrastate Only)
• 245 - Icing Code: Pre-cooled and Pre-iced by Shipper - Do Not Re-Ice
• 509 - Heating Code: Modified Carrier's Protective Service (Intrastate Only)
• 510 - Heating Code: Shipper's Protective Service
• 515 - Heating Code: Carrier's Protective Service
• 580 - Heating Code: Special Heater Protective Service
• 705 - Rail Car Examples: Optimum Temperature of Zero Degrees or Less
• 710 - Rail Car Examples: Optimum Temperature Above Zero
• 711 - Rail Car Example: Place Under Modified MPS at First Regular Inspection Station After Car Thermometer Reading Rises Above Optimum Temperature
• 715 - Rail Car Example: Optimum Temperature of Zero Degrees or Less (Car Owned/Leased By Shipper)
• 720 - Rail Car Example: Do Not Operate Unit
• 765 - Rail Car Example: Optimum Temperature Above Zero With Body Ice
• 805 - Van/Container Example: Optimum Temperature
• 810 - Van/Container Example: Ventilators Opened At Origin
• 830 - Van/Container Example: Optimum Temperature of Zero Degrees Or Less