To Amend the Motor Carrier Act, 1935: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on S. 3606, a Bill to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act as Amended |
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agent application authority BEALL BENTON bill Bureau of Motor carrier by motor carriers operating certificate or permit Chairman Commis Commissioner Eastman committee common carrier companies competition Congress connection construed contract carriers convenience and necessity desirable effective engaged exempt Federal filed foreign commerce freight granted hearing hereby amended highway intended Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission interstate or foreign interstate rates interstate traffic intrastate issued JOHNSON of Colorado joint board jurisdiction lines matter ment Motor Carrier Act motor vehicle motor-carrier name of carrier paragraph passengers or property Port Angeles power of attorney present private carriers property in interstate proposed amendment provisions of section public convenience public interest question reason recommended referred regulation requirements respect routes schedules section 206 Senator JOHNSON Senator SHIPSTEAD shippers short-line railroads situation SOUBY statement suggested tariffs thereof tion TREADWAY truck truckers WAKELEE Washington words
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Page 84 - Commission may also require any motor carrier to file with it a true copy of each or any contract, agreement, or arrangement between such carrier and any other carrier or person in relation to any traffic affected by the provisions of this part, to which he or it may be a party.
Page 78 - ... unfair or destructive competitive practices; improve the relations between, and coordinate transportation by and regulation of, motor carriers and other carriers; develop and preserve a highway transportation system properly adapted to the needs of the commerce of the United States and of the national defense...
Page 78 - To administer, execute, and enforce all provisions of this part, to make all necessary orders in connection therewith, and to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedure for such administration...
Page 9 - To enable the provision of service for which there is an immediate and urgent need to a point or points or within a territory having no carrier service capable of meeting such need...
Page 184 - ... to use service by motor vehicle to public advantage in its operations and will not unduly restrain competition.
Page 21 - Act, as amended, such applicant shall for the purposes of this section be considered an air carrier and the Authority shall not enter such an order of approval unless it finds that the transaction proposed will promote the public interest by enabling such carrier other than an air carrier to use aircraft to public advantage in its operation and will not restrain competition.
Page 39 - Nothing in 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 shall be construed to include (1) motor vehicles employed solely in transporting school children and teachers to or from school...
Page 177 - That if. after hearing on a complaint made as provided in section thirteen of this Act, the commission shall determine that any party complainant is entitled to an award of damages under the provisions of this Act...
Page 134 - common carrier by motor vehicle" means any person who or which undertakes, whether directly or by a lease or any other arrangement, to transport passengers or property, or any class or classes of property, for the general public in interstate or foreign commerce by motor vehicle for compensation, whether over regular or Irregular routes, including such motor vehicle operations of carriers by rail or water, and of express or forwarding companies, except to the extent that these operations are subject...
Page 56 - ... 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, be otherwise...