Decline of Regulated Common Carriage: Hearings Before the Surface Transportation Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, to Determine the Causes and Extent of the Relative Decline of Regulated Carriers as Against Other Types of Carriage and Evaluate the Resulting Effect on the Adequacy of Our National Transportation System |
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Page 135 - 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 191 - ... property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shellfish), 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 : Provided, That the words "property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shell fish), or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof)" as used herein shall include...
Page 90 - Act, or of such rule, regulation, requirement, order, term, condition, or limitation; and such court shall have jurisdiction to enforce obedience thereto by a writ of injunction or other process, mandatory or otherwise, restraining such...
Page 176 - The ultimate objective of the entire program is a system of coordinated transportation for the Nation which will supply the most efficient means of transport and furnish service as cheaply as is consistent with fair treatment of labor and with earnings which will support adequate credit and the ability to expand as need develops and to take advantage of all improvements in the art.
Page 278 - If I can be of any further help, please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely yours, MELVIN A.
Page 87 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 85th Cong., 2d Sess., pt.
Page 74 - As used in this section, the term 'motor carriers' includes brokers. "UNLAWFUL OPERATION "SEC. 222. (a) Any person knowingly and willfully violating any provision of this part, or any rule, regulation, requirement, or order thereunder, or any term or condition of any certificate, permit, or license, for which a penalty is not otherwise herein provided, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $100 for the first offense and not more than $500 for any subsequent offense. Each day of such...
Page 137 - From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect...
Page 191 - property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shellfish), or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof)" as used herein shall include property shown as "Exempt" in the "Commodity List" incorporated in ruling numbered 107 March 19.
Page 191 - June 1, 1935, over the route or routes or within the territory for which application Is made and has so operated since that time, or if engaged in furnishing seasonal service only, was In bona fide operation on June 1, 1935, during the season ordinarily covered by its operation...