Less-than-carload Freight Traffic and Freight Forwarder Carload Traffic: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. Res. 146...June 5-24, 1940 |
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application average load bill of lading carload freight carload rate carload traffic Carloading Corporation cars cents certificate charges Chicago cities class I railroads classification committee competition consignee consolidator cost DEASY Deposited Stock destination effect express companies filed forwarder service forwarder traffic forwarding carrier forwarding common carrier forwarding companies forwarding contract forwarding operations FRANKLIN freight forwarders going handling haul HEALY hearing Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission joint rates KERR less-than-carload freight less-than-carload traffic Linden lines ment merchandise traffic Merchants Despatch minimum Motor Carrier Act move movement Ohio Pennsylvania Railroad percent pick-up and delivery points pooling pounds profit rail carriers Railway Express Agency reason regulation revenue routes rule Securities Senator REED presiding Senator WHEELER ship shipments shipper southern statement stations tariffs territory thereof tion tonnage tons transfer transportation truck Trustee United States Freight warder waybills western York Central
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Page 495 - ... 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 126 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 1 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such times and places during the sessions, recesses, and adjourned periods of the...
Page 126 - 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 5 - ... but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the lawfulness of such rate, fare...
Page 16 - ... pending such hearing and the decision thereon the Commission, upon filing with such schedule and delivering to the carrier or carriers affected thereby a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such schedule and defer the use of such rate, fare, or charge...
Page 11 - ... upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States, of competent jurisdiction within the district in which such offense was committed...
Page 7 - ... to accomplish or effectuate, or to participate in accomplishing or effectuating, the control or management in a common interest of any two or more carriers, however such result is attained, whether directly or indirectly, by use of common directors, officers, or stockholders, a holding or investment company or companies, a voting trust or trusts, or in any other manner whatsoever.
Page 16 - ... the Commission may make such order with reference thereto as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective. If the proceeding has not been concluded and an order made within the period of suspension, the proposed change of rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice shall go into effect at the end of such period...
Page 4 - ... refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs: Provided, That wherever the word 'carrier' occurs in this Act it shall be held to mean 'common carrier.