Anyone know what PHP means under a LIRR commodity received? This pertains to Meat Packing and Distribution consignees. Thanks
Any date or period indicated? If it was prior to the adoption of the 7-digit (2-3-2) Standard Transportation Commodity Code (STCC, pron. "stick code"), I think sometime around the 1980's, it might stand for Packing House Products. Before that, local freight agents and clerks made up any abbreviation that suited them when typing a waybill, making it impossible to computerize commodity information from waybills. Thus an industry-wide creation and adoption of the STCC code.
From my days as a trace clerk I can recall waybills for CUKES (cucumbers) and PTG PAP (printing paper)--picture searching on that.