Practitioners' Journal, Volume 29, Issue 8Association of Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners., 1962 - Carriers |
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74th Annual Report amended application approved Attorney at Law carriage Chairman Chapter charges Chicago coal Commission's common carriers common-carrier compensatory contract carriers Corp decision determining district court effect embraced establish evidence Federal filed Finance Bd for-hire found not shown freight Fulton County Gulfport Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission intrastate linehaul Louis low-cost carrier Mechanicville meet Minn Motor Carrier Act motor carriers motor common carrier Motor Truck movement National Transportation Policy Ohio Operating Authority out-of-pocket cost percent petition Philadelphia points portation ports Practices Rev private carriers proceeding proposed rates Proposed reduced truckload protestants public interest rail carriers railroads ratemaking Rates & Practices reasonable reduced rates reduced truckload rate regulation respondent Rights Bd Rights Rev routes rule Salt serve shipments shippers Supp Supreme Court Texas tion Traffic Manager Transp Truck Lines United unlawful vehicles Washington water carriers York
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Page 985 - ... substantially less than the entire length of its railroad and of any intermediate railroad operated in conjunction and under a common management or control therewith, which lies between the termini of such proposed through route, (a) unless such inclusion of lines would make the through route unreasonably long as compared with another practicable through route which could otherwise be established...
Page 950 - 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 policy.
Page 961 - No term, condition, or limitation of a certificate shall restrict the right of an air carrier to add to or change schedules, equipment, accommodations, and facilities for performing the authorized transportation and service as the development of the business and the demands of the public shall require.
Page 1000 - ... 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...
Page 957 - private carrier of property by motor vehicle" means any person not included in the terms "common carrier by motor vehicle" or "contract carrier by motor vehicle", who or which transports in interstate or foreign commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner, lessee, or bailee, when such transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in furtherance of any commercial enterprise.
Page 957 - It is well established law that the highways of the state are public property; that their primary and preferred use is for private purposes; and that their use for purposes of gain is special and extraordinary, which, generally, at least, the legislature may prohibit or condition as it sees fit.
Page 1000 - Rates of a carrier shall not be held up to a particular level to protect the traffic of any other mode of transportation, giving due consideration to the objectives of the national transportation .policy declared in this Act.
Page 999 - As Congress enacted separately stated rate-making rules for each transport agency, it obviously intended that the rates of each such agency should be determined by us in each case according to the facts and circumstances attending the movement of the traffic by that ngoney.
Page 999 - ... ratemaking rules for each transport agency, it obviously intended that the rates of each such agency should be determined by us in each case according to the facts and circumstances attending the movement of the traffic by that agency. In other words, there appears no warrant for believing that rail rates, for example, should be held up to a particular level to preserve a motor-rate structure, or vice versa.
Page 1000 - The subcommittee wishes to affirm the interpretation of the Commission given in the Automobile case epitomized in the words quoted above. The subcommittee therefore believes it necessary to amend the act only so as, in effect, to admonish the Commission to be concistent in following the policy enunciated in the Automobile cases, thus assuring reasonable freedom in the making of competitive rates.