Interstate Commerce Commission Freight Motor Carrier Oversight: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, September 19, 1991, Volume 4 |
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Page 128 - Under the Interstate Commerce Act, the rate of the carrier duly filed is the only lawful charge. Deviation from it is not permitted upon any pretext. Shippers and travelers are charged with notice of it, and they as well as the carrier must abide by it, unless it is found by the Commission to be unreasonable.
Page 144 - March 13 in hearings before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs of the House Committee on Government Operations...
Page 161 - The NARUC is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization founded in 1889. Within its membership are the -governmental agencies of the fifty States and of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers. Our chief objective is to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America.
Page 128 - In order to render rates definite and certain, and to prevent discrimination and other abuses, the statute required the filing and publishing of tariffs specifying the rates adopted by the carrier, and made these the legal rates, that is, those which must be charged to all shippers alike.
Page 128 - ... the law. One rate is to be charged and that the one fixed and published in the manner pointed out in the statute, and subject to change in the only way open by the statute. There is no provision for the filing of contracts with shippers and no method of making them public defined in the statute. If the rates are subject to secret alteration by special agreement then the statute will fail of its purpose to establish a rate duly published, known to all, and from which neither shipper nor carrier...
Page 162 - ... (i) by assigning motor vehicles for a continuing period of time for the exclusive use of each such person...
Page 129 - ... the rate available to all other shippers. But the law is not limited to giving equal rates by indirect and uncertain methods. It has provided for the establishing of one rate, to be filed as provided, subject to change as provided, and that rate to be while in force the only legal rate. Any other construction of the statute opens the door to the possibility of the very abuses of unequal rates which it was the design of the statute to prohibit and punish.
Page 162 - We have the obligation under State law to assure the establishment and maintenance of such energy utility services as may be required by the public convenience and necessity, and to ensure that such services are provided at rates and conditions which are just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory for all consumers.
Page 131 - That carrier may not charge or receive a different compensation for that transportation or service than the rate specified in the tariff whether by returning a part of that rate to a person, giving a person a privilege, allowing the use of a facility that affects the value of that transportation or service, or another device.
Page 161 - The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is a quasi-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1889.