Report on Rate-making and Rate-publishing Procedures of Railroad, Motor and Water CarriersU.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 170 páginas |
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agreements American Trucking Associations appeal applicable articles of association Board bureaus and committees Central Freight Association Chairman changes in rates charges Chicago class rates Classification Territory coal and coke commodities common carriers Congress Consolidated Classification Committee effective establishment executive committee fication filed Freight Bureau freight committee freight traffic grain groups hearings Illinois independent action Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission interterritorial rate investigation involved jurisdiction Lake Michigan Maritime Commission member lines membership Mississippi River motor carriers Motor Freight Classification motor-carrier bureaus Official Classification Committee operating organization points Potomac Rivers rail railroad bureaus railroad rate rate adjustments rate bureaus rate-making and rate-publishing rate-making procedure rate-publishing procedures recommendations request rules and regulations Southern Freight Association standing rate committee submitted tariff-publishing agent tion Traffic Executive Association traffic officers Trans-Missouri Freight Association Transportation Act Trunk Line Territory Union Station Chicago United water carriers Western Trunk Line
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Página 42 - 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...
Página 40 - ... lines would either engage in rate wars which would mean the elimination of the weak and the survival of the strong, or, to avoid a costly struggle, they would consolidate through common ownership. Neither result can be prevented by legislation, and either would mean a monopoly fully as effective, and it is believed more so, than can exist by virtue of an agreement.
Página 40 - To terminate existing agreements would necessarily bring about one of two results: the lines would either engage in rate wars which would mean the elimination of the weak and the survival...
Página 41 - While admitting their many advantages, the committee is not disposed to recognize steamship agreements and conferences unless the same are brought under some form of effective government supervision. To permit such agreements without government supervision would mean giving the parties thereto unrestricted right of action. Abuses exist, and the numerous complaints received by the committee show that they must be recognized.
Página 28 - ... in order to determine to what extent and in what manner existing rates and charges may be unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, thereby imposing undue burdens or giving undue advantage as between the various localities and parts of the country, the various classes of traffic, and the various classes and kinds of commodities, and to make, in accordance with law, such changes, adjustments, and redistribution of rates and charges as may be found necessary to correct...