Practitioners' Journal, Volume 20, Issue 7

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Association of Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners., 1953 - Carriers

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Page 629 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic...
Page 655 - Include * • • (8) motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shell fish), or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof...
Page 654 - States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions ; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of...
Page 623 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 628 - Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...
Page 691 - The incidental to transportation by aircraft exemption has been defined as that confined to the transportation in bona fide collection, delivery, or transfer service of shipments which have been received from or will be delivered to an air carrier as part of a continuous movement under a through air bill of lading covering, in addition to the line-haul movement by air, the collection, delivery, or transfer service performed by...
Page 635 - Provided, that if a carrier by railroad subject to this part, or any person which is controlled by such a carrier, or affiliated therewith within the meaning of Paragraph (b), is an applicant in the case of any such proposed transaction involving a motor carrier, the Commission shall not enter such an order unless it finds that the transaction proposed will be consistent with the public interest and will enable such...
Page 629 - Congress to regulate transportation by motor carriers in such manner as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of, and 1 Congressional Record, Volume 59, pp. 139-40. foster sound economic conditions in, such transportation and among such carriers in the public interest...
Page 629 - ... the need, in the public interest of adequate and efficient transportation service by such carriers at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable such carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 628 - ... to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices...

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