Surface Transportation Ratemaking Bills: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fifty Congress, First Session, on S. 377 [and Others] ...Considers legislation to revise motor carrier ratemaking procedures, to revise preferential transportation rate policy for Government employees, and to make motor carriers and freight forwarders liable for ratemaking procedures violations. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
84th Congress actual rates amend section applicable authority BAKER bill of lading carriers by motor cause of action cents Chairman circuitous routes CLARKE class rates commercial shippers Commission's commodity rates common carriers competitive Congress contract carrier cost court damages Department of Defense ECMCA effect enactment established Federal filed Foreign Commerce fourth section freight forwarders Government traffic Interstate and Foreign Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission Item ment MF ICC minimum rates motor carriers movement negotiate NMFC operating paragraph passenger deficit percent property or passengers proposed provisions of section railroads rates and charges rates or charges reasonable recommendation reduced rates regulation reparation repeal revenue schedule section 22 quotations section 22 rates Senator LAUSCHE Senator PURTELL Senator SMATHERS shipments of property STALEY statement statute tariff rates tion traffic management United United States Senate unreasonable WARREN G
Popular passages
Page vii - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 201 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 287 - That nothing in this act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page v - States shall proceed in all respects like other civil suits for damages, except that on the trial of such suit the findings and order of the commission shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated...
Page v - ... together with a reasonable counsel or attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court in every case of recovery, which attorney's fee shall be taxed and collected as part of the costs in the case.
Page viii - ... liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation...
Page vi - State court of general jurisdiction having jurisdiction of the parties, a complaint setting forth briefly the causes for which he claims damages, and the order of the Commission in the premises.
Page 201 - ... to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices...
Page viii - If a carrier does not comply with an order for the payment of money within the time limit in such order, the complainant, or any person for whose benefit such order was made...
Page vi - The cause of action in respect of a shipment of property shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to accrue upon delivery or tender of delivery thereof by the carrier, and not after.