Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 120L.K. Strouse, 1927 - Interstate commerce |
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Page 817 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote, encourage and develop water transportation service and facilities in connection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Page 549 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance, or to charge any greater compensation as a through rate than the aggregate of the intermediate rates subject to the provisions of this Act...
Page 494 - When property may be or is transported from point ^ to point in the United States by rail and water through the Panama Canal or otherwise, the transportation being slonby a common carrier or carriers, and not entirely within the limits of a single State...
Page 571 - ... if a circuitous rail line or route is, because of such c,ircuity, granted authority to meet the charges of a more direct line or route to or from competitive points and to maintain higher charges to or from intermediate points on its line, the authority shall not include intermediate points as to which the haul of the petitioning line or route is not longer than that of the direct line or route between the competitive points...
Page 494 - (a) To establish physical connection between the lines of the rail carrier and the dock of the water carrier by directing the rail carrier to make suitable connection between its line and a track or tracks which have been constructed from the dock to the limits of its right of way, or by directing either or both the rail and water carrier, individually or in connection with one another...
Page 14 - ... establish that the shipments were misrouted .... The route over which complainant's shipments moved is not unreasonably long as compared with other tariff routes over which the 74 cent rate applied from an extensive origin group, including Minnequa, to an extensive destination group, including Brownwood. One of the best tests of the reasonableness of a rate is by comparison with rates on like traffic between points similarly situated. The general application of the 74 cent rate from and to the...
Page 56 - ... asked for, nor upon a new complaint by or for the same complainant which is based upon a finding in the original proceeding.
Page 62 - St. L. & SFRR Co., 26 ICC 245, 250, it was held that the obligation to furnish cars in condition for use did not extend to lining and padding cars in preparation for flour shipments. "The primary object of lining cars seems to be to prevent the white sack from becoming soiled and to afford protection to the delicate texture of the package itself. The furnishing of this protection, which complainants claim to be necessary in the shipment of flour in sacks, partakes of the nature of private packing...
Page 488 - ... notice shall be sent or given the consignee in writing or, in lieu thereof, as .otherwise agreed, to in writing, that delivery will be made at the nearest available point to the consignee, naming the point, such delivery shall be made unless the consignee shall before delivery indicate a preferred available point, in which case the preferred delivery will be made.
Page 491 - The establishment of such through rates and joint rates not shown to be necessary or desirable in the public interest, and...