Express Company Exemptions, Freight Forwarder Control, Hearing ... 87-2 ... July 20, 1962

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Page 26 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 3 - It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this part to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, association, locality, port, port district, gateway, transit point, region, district, territory, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 13 - If there are any questions, I would be glad to try to answer them. Senator MONTOTA.
Page 8 - US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOR : This is in response to your request for the views of the Department of Justice on S. 1719, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act and the Federal Aviation Act of 1958...
Page 37 - No such permit shall be issued to any common carrier subject to part I, II, or III of this Act...
Page 29 - Commission finds that, subject to such terms and conditions and such modifications as it shall find to be just and reasonable, the proposed transaction is within the scope of subparagraph (a) and will be consistent with the public interest, it shall enter an order approving and authorizing such transaction, upon the terms and conditions, and with the modifications, so found to be just and reasonable...
Page 27 - ... provisions of part IV of the act relating to ownership, control, and operation of freight forwarders in common with carriers of other modes be revised and clarified, and, to this end, that future transactions involving such relationships be made subject to the provisions of section 5 of part I.
Page 12 - ... paragraph (2) (a) would be amended to preclude approval, under revised section 5, of a common carrier, subject to part I, II, or III, holding a permit as a freight forwarder. This is in keeping with the retention of the present prohibition in section 410 (c) of such unification of operating rights in a single entity. Otherwise substantial confusion would result among shippers as to the capacity in which the carrier was serving. Several changes also are required in part IV in order to make it...
Page 55 - ... governed Congress in the enactment of section 411 (a) have not changed in any material respect. In its relations with the carriers which it utilizes for underlying transportation services, the freight forwarder is a shipper, and as such it routes or controls the movement of large amounts of freight. To permit forwarders to acquire control of carriers subject to the act would, in our opinion, open the way to opportunities for discrimination not only with respect to rates and charges, but also...

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