Contracts Between Freight Forwarders and Railroads: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3714 ... Sept. 9, 10, and 11, 1968

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Committee Serial No. 90-86. Considers S. 3714, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to allow freight forwarders to make rate contracts with railroad carriers in order to compete with the trucking industry.

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Halaman 5 - ... carrier refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs: Provided, that wherever the word 'carrier' occurs In this act it shall be held to mean 'common carrier.
Halaman 6 - other person subject to this act" means any person not included in the term "common carrier by water," carrying on the business of forwarding or furnishing wharfage, dock, warehouse, or other terminal facilities in connection with a common carrier by water.
Halaman 45 - freight forwarder" means any person which (otherwise than as a carrier subject to part I, II, or ni of this Act) holds Itself out to the general public to transport or provide transportation of property, or any class or classes of property, for compensation, In Interstate commerce, and which, In the ordinary and usual course of Its undertaking, (A) assembles...
Halaman 5 - ... and it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corporation, to offer, grant, or give, or to solicit, accept, or receive any rebate...
Halaman 4 - ... tariff rates in all cases where the linehaul transportation is for a total distance of 450 miles or more, and (3) provide penalties for the offer, grant, giving, solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of any rebate, concession, or discrimination resulting from the transportation of property at compensation less than that specified in such contract.
Halaman 154 - The contention that a carrier, when goods are tendered to him for transportation, can make the mere ownership of the goods the test of the duty to carry, or, what is equivalent, may discriminate in fixing the charge for carriage, not upon any difference inhering in the goods or in the cost of the service...
Halaman 63 - ... consolidating shipments of such property, and performs or provides for the performance of breakbulk and distributing operations with respect to such consolidated shipments, and (B) assumes responsibility for the transportation of such property from point of receipt to point of destination, and (C) utilizes, for the whole or any part of the transportation of such shipments, the services of a carrier or carriers subject to part I, II, or III of this Act.
Halaman 5 - ... whereby any such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published and filed by such carrier, as is required by said act to regulate commerce and the acts amendatory thereof, or whereby any other advantage is given or discrimination is practiced.
Halaman 153 - Whenever common crriers subject to parts I, II, or III of the Interstate Commerce Act or any group of such carriers incur or are about to incur substantial increases...
Halaman 154 - ... discriminate in fixing the charge for carriage, not upon any difference inhering in the goods or in the cost of the service rendered in transporting them, but upon the mere circumstance that the shipper is or is not the real owner of the goods, is...

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