Transport Policy and Organization: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on the Report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Transport Policy and Organization, Sept. 19, 20, 21, and 22, 1955Reviews report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Transport Policy and Organization. |
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22 quotation amendments American Trucking Associations American Waterways Operators application association believe burden Cabinet Committee carload Chairman PRIEST changes charges common carriers compensatory competing competitive rate competitors CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract carriers Department of Defense discrimination discriminatory DOLLIVER economic effect exempt filed FLEMMING forms of transportation freight forwarders Government HALE HARRIS hearings HESELTON highway inland Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission legislation maximum minimum rate modes of transportation MORROW motor carriers Mountain Pacific national transportation policy O'HARA operations Oren Harris out-of-pocket costs passenger percent permitted PINKNEY portation present Presidential Advisory Committee private carriage problem proposed rate provisions question railroads rate structure reasonable minimum recommendations reduced rates regulation regulatory revenues Secretary WEEKS Secretary WILSON section 22 shippers situation statement suspension tariff THOMPSON tion Total traffic trans transportation industry transportation system trucks water carriers waterway Western Trunkline
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Page 7 - States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Page 53 - Provided, however, That this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to discrimination, prejudice, or disadvantage to the traffic of any other carrier of whatever description.
Page 70 - 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 124 - ... to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof...
Page 154 - When used in this section the term "rates" means rates, fares, and charges, and all classifications, regulations, and practices relating thereto. (2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed...
Page 124 - 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...
Page 190 - The provisions of this part shall not be construed to apply (1) to the operations of a shipper, or a group or association of shippers, in consolidating or distributing freight for themselves or for the members thereof, on a nonprofit basis, for the purpose of securing the benefits of carload, truckload, or other volume rates, or (2) to the operations of a warehouseman or other shippers...
Page 71 - ... shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to municipal governments for the transportation of indigent persons, or to inmates of Veterans' Administration of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and of Soldiers
Page 71 - State, or municipal governments, or for charitable purposes, or to or from fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat, or the free carriage of destitute and homeless persons transported by charitable societies, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation, or the issuance of mileage, excursion, or commutation passenger tickets; nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to municipal governments for the...
Page 7 - 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; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...