Transportation Policy: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 6141 [and Others], Part 1 |
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... truck rates are established and maintained at a point above rail rates where service considerations slightly overbalance the higher rates . Again , water carrier rates are frequently set below those of land carriers by an amount ...
... truck rates are established and maintained at a point above rail rates where service considerations slightly overbalance the higher rates . Again , water carrier rates are frequently set below those of land carriers by an amount ...
Page 54
... truck or a railroad . If I am a shipper , I think I ought to be able to buy my transportation at a competitive rate , within those limits the best rate , the rate that suits me best , service considered . Mr. ADAMS . In other words ...
... truck or a railroad . If I am a shipper , I think I ought to be able to buy my transportation at a competitive rate , within those limits the best rate , the rate that suits me best , service considered . Mr. ADAMS . In other words ...
Page 56
... trucks operating on that line , it would be feasible to have 1 company own a thousand trucks or to have 2 com- panies owning 500 each or maybe have 500 companies owning 2 trucks each . Would that be correct ? There are no specific ...
... trucks operating on that line , it would be feasible to have 1 company own a thousand trucks or to have 2 com- panies owning 500 each or maybe have 500 companies owning 2 trucks each . Would that be correct ? There are no specific ...
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... truck . Mr. ADAMS . Oh , yes . But you would agree that in the trucking industry , no great aggregation of capital ... trucks cost money and you need plenty of capital to get into the business . Mr. ADAMS . But nothing compared to the ...
... truck . Mr. ADAMS . Oh , yes . But you would agree that in the trucking industry , no great aggregation of capital ... trucks cost money and you need plenty of capital to get into the business . Mr. ADAMS . But nothing compared to the ...
Page 58
... trucks , air planes , and shipping running on fixed schedules at fixed and published rates , which provide the shipper , whoever he may be , big or little , with a service that he must have , I think you would have chaos in the ...
... trucks , air planes , and shipping running on fixed schedules at fixed and published rates , which provide the shipper , whoever he may be , big or little , with a service that he must have , I think you would have chaos in the ...
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