Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases, Volume 42U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - Bus lines |
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Application for certificate Application otherwise denied Atlanta authority carrier by motor certificate authorizing Certificate granted Chicago Commission Commissioner Lee commodities commodity rates COMMON CARRIER APPLICATION Company complainant Contract Carrier Application convenience and necessity County Decided April Decided July Decided March defendants DIVISION equipment EXTENSION OF OPERATIONS foreign commerce Fort Wayne Freight Lines further hearing grandfather hereinafter household Indiana intermediate points Interstate Commerce Act interstate or foreign Iowa irregular routes Jersey Kansas City less-than-truckload loads Louis miles Missouri motor carriers motor common carriers Motor Freight motor vehicle North Carolina North Dakota off-route points Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania percent pounds prior report prior to June proceeding proposed rates protestants public convenience rail carriers regular respects respondents revenues served shipments shippers shown in prior Sub-No tank trucks territory Texas thence over U. S. tion traffic Truck Lines truckload U. S. Highway U. S. Highway 64 Virginia West Virginia York Highway
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Page 198 - Except in case of negligence of the carrier or party in possession (and the burden to prove freedom from such negligence shall be on the carrier or party in possession), the carrier or party in possession shall not be liable for loss, damage, or delay occurring while the property is stopped and held in transit upon the request of the shipper, owner, or party entitled to make such request, or resulting from a defect or vice in the property, or for country damage to cotton, or from riots or strikes.
Page 181 - common carrier by motor vehicle" means any person which holds itself out to the general public to engage in the transportation by motor vehicle in interstate or foreign commerce of passengers or property or any class or classes thereof for compensation, whether over regular or irregular routes...
Page 13 - Commission shall have, and it is hereby given authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice...
Page 138 - Section 210a, no common carrier by motor vehicle subject to the provisions of this part shall engage in any interstate or foreign operation on any public highway, or within any reservation under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, unless there is in force with respect to such carrier a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Commission...
Page 625 - 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 255 - In order to provide for, strengthen, and expedite the national defense under the emergent conditions which are threatening the peace and security of the United States and to enable the United States the more successfully to fulfill the requirements of the national defense, provision is hereby made to suspend enforcement of civil liabilities, in certain cases, of persons in the military service of the United States in order to enable such persons to devote their entire energy to the defense needs...
Page 108 - Any such certificate, permit, or license may, upon application of the holder thereof, in the discretion of the Commission, be amended or revoked, in whole or in part, or may upon complaint, or on the Commission's own initiative, after notice and hearing, be suspended, changed, or revoked, in whole or in part, for willful failure...
Page 187 - 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 527 - motor carrier" includes both a common carrier by motor vehicle and a contract carrier by motor vehicle".4 The term "common carrier by motor vehicle" means "any person which holds itself out to the general public to engage in the transportation by motor vehicle in interstate or foreign commerce of passengers or property or any class or classes thereof for compensation...
Page 107 - Certificates, permits, and licenses shall be effective from the date specified therein, and shall remain in effect until suspended or terminated as herein provided. Any such certificate, permit, or license may, upon application of the holder thereof, in the discretion of the Commission, be amended or revoked, in whole or in part...