Transportation Policy: Digest, Analysis, and Index of Testimony of the 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 HR. 6142, Bills to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, So as to Provide for a Stronger National Transportation Industry, and for Other Purposes (and Related Bills). |
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Page 89 - Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service, and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 3 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, 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 89 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed...
Page 14 - Commission shall have, and it is hereby given authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice...
Page 11 - If the proceeding has not been concluded and an order made within the period of suspension, the proposed change of rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice shall go into effect at the end of such period...
Page 6 - ... the commission shall give to the hearing and decision of such questions preference over all other questions pending before it and decide the same as speedily as possible.
Page 3 - ... provided, however, that upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this Act.
Page 12 - ... provide reasonable facilities for operating such through routes and to make reasonable rules and regulations with respect to the exchange, interchange, and return of cars used therein, and for the operation of such through routes, and providing for reasonable compensation to those entitled thereto.
Page 1 - ... to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof...
Page 12 - That every common carrier by water, in interstate commerce shall establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable rates, fares, charges, classifications, and tariffs, and just and reasonable regulations and practices relating thereto and to the issuance, form; and substance of tickets, receipts, and bills of lading, the manner and method of presenting marking, packing and delivering property for transportation...
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| Title | Transportation Policy: Digest, Analysis, and Index of Testimony of the 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 HR. 6142, Bills to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as ... |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | Mar 23, 2007 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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