Amending Motor Carrier Act. Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... on H.R. 9739 ... May 18, 19, 20, and 23, 1938 |
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American Trucking Association application authority BEALL BENTON bill BOREN Bureau of Motor carriers operating Chairman charges Commis Commissioner EASTMAN common carrier companies comply Congress construed contract carriers court delivery service effect enforcement engaged exemption existing carriers February 28 Federal foreign commerce FULBRIGHT grandfather clause grant HALLECK handle haul hearing hereby amended highway Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission interstate or foreign interstate traffic intrastate issuance issued jurisdiction KOEHLER large number lease license plates matter ment mission Motor Carrier Act motor vehicle motor-carrier municipalities objection operation solely paragraph passengers pick-up and delivery present private carriers property in interstate proposed amendment provisions of section rail railroads reasonable recommended REECE referred regulation require respect riers route SADOWSKI safety SCOTT section 213 securities shippers subcommittee suggested suspend tariffs thereof tion transportation in interstate trucker violation words
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Page 32 - Act, shall the provisions of this part, except the provisions of section 204 relative to qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees and safety of operation or standards of equipment...
Page 46 - Include * * * (6) motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (Including shell fish), or agricultural (Including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), If such motor vehicles are not used in carrying any other property, or passengers, for compensation...
Page 3 - ... 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. It shall be unlawful to continue to maintain control or management accomplished or effectuated after the enactment...
Page 60 - All complaints for the recovery of damages shall be filed with the Commission within two years from the time the cause of action accrues, and not after...
Page 60 - Act for a violation thereof, the Commission shall make an order directing the carrier to pay to the complainant the sum to which he is entitled on or before a day named.
Page 44 - The transportation of passengers or property in interstate or foreign commerce wholly within a municipality or between contiguous municipalities or within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of any such municipality or municipalities...
Page 59 - ... line or lines and deliver the same to a connecting line or lines according to such through route, and it shall be the duty of each of said connecting carriers to receive said property and transport it over the said line or lines and deliver the same to the next succeeding carrier or consignee according to the routing instructions in said bill of lading: Provided, however, That the shipper shall in all instances have the right to determine, where competing lines of railroad constitute portions...
Page 67 - At a Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, division 5, held at its office in Washington, DC, on the 14th dny of April, AD 1941.
Page 88 - That this paragraph shall not be so construed as to require any such carrier lawfully engaged in operation solely within any State to obtain from the Commission a certificate authorizing the transportation by such carrier of passengers or property in interstate or foreign commerce between places within such State if there be a board in such State having authority to grant or approve such certificates and if such carrier has obtained such certificate from such board. Such transportation shall, however,...
Page 60 - If the petitioner shall finally prevail he shall be allowed a reasonable attorney's fee, to be taxed and collected as a part of the costs of the suit.