Volume 71
Public Law 85–124
To amend section 218 (a) of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to require contract carriers by motor vehicle to tile with the Interstate Commerce Commission their actual rates or charges for transportation services.
Approved August 13, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 218 (a) of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to require contract carriers by motor vehicle to tile with the Interstate Commerce Commission their actual rates or charges for transportation services.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 218 (a) of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended (49 U. S. C. 318 (a) ), is further amended as follows:
49 Stat. 561; 54 Stat. 919, 925.
By striking from the second sentence thereof the words “the minimum rates or charges of such carrier actually maintained and charged” and substituting therefor the words “the actual rates or charges of such carrier”and by striking out the period at the end of such sentence and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: “Provided, That any contract carrier serving but one shipper having rendered continuous service to such shipper for not less than one year may file reasonable minimum rates and charges unless the Commission in any individual case, after hearing, finds it in the public interest to require the filing of actual rates and charges.”;
By striking from the third sentence the words “minimum charges” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “actual rates or charges”;
By striking out the fourth sentence up to the semicolon and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Nothing herein provided shall be so construed as to require such carriers to maintain the same rates, rules and regulations for the same services for all shippers served. No reduction shall be made in any such charge either directly or by means of any change in any rule, regulation, or practice affecting such charge or the value of the service thereunder, nor shall any new charge be established, except after thirty days’ notice of the proposed change or new charge filed in the aforesaid form and manner”.
By changing the sixth sentence up to the proviso to read as follows: “No such carrier shall demand, charge, or collect compensation for such transportation different from the charges filed in accordance with this paragraph, as affected by any rule, regulation, or practice so filed, or less than the minimum rate or charge as may be prescribed by the Commission from time to time, and it shall be unlawful for any such carrier, by the furnishing of special services, facilities, or privileges, or by any other device whatsoever, to charge, accept, or receive compensation different from the actual rates and charges so filed, or less than the minimum charges so prescribed:”
Approved August 13, 1957.