Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961

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Page 207 - ... than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 2 - Act) holds itself out to the general public as a common carrier to transport or provide transportation of property, or any class or classes of property, for compensation, in interstate commerce, and which, in the ordinary and usual course of its undertaking, (A) assembles and consolidates or provides for assembling and consolidating shipments of such property, and performs or provides for the performance of break-bulk...
Page 120 - ... lengths of full railway post office cars, apartment railway post office cars and storage cars and baggage cars used for transportation of mail as the basis of payment, fractions of a foot shall be disregarded if 6 inches or under and credit given for a full foot if over 6 inches. No deduction shall be made in such storage cars and baggage cars for the space occupied by interior fittings provided they do not occupy, in the aggregate, more than 1 linear foot of space. Where they occupy, in the...
Page 160 - It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this part to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, association, locality, port, port district, gateway, transit point, region, district, territory, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 124 - ... such railway agents or employees while engaged in rendering the service, including cost of vehicular service that may be necessary, with the addition of 3 percent. In computing the value of the pro rata time of such agents or employees there shall be included base pay; 3 percent of base pay representing vacation allowance; and the applicable railroad retirement and unemployment insurance taxes at the rate in effect when the service is rendered.
Page 136 - If there Is in any other tariff a commodity rate on the same article from the Intermediate origin point applicable over the same route to the same destination, the provisions of this rule are not applicable from such Intermediate origin point.
Page 31 - The facts stated in the memorandum must be sworn to by persons having knowledge thereof, which latter fact must affirmatively appear in the affidavit.
Page 439 - ... but in exercising the authority conferred upon it in this proviso the Commission shall not permit the establishment of any charge to or from the more distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for the service performed...
Page 424 - Commission, unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the Commission or be suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 125 - Railroads shall submit certified copies of each contract to the Department on or before July 1 of each year showing the rate of payment for the ensuing year, and the amounts specified in such contracts, plus 3 percent, shall be accepted as the basis of payment by the Department heretofore described. Railroads shall also furnish the Department each year, on or before July 1, a detailed statement of the daily time consumed in handling the...

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