chassis and semi-trailer chassis," in initial or secondary movents, in truckaway service, may be joined either with its authority to transport general commodities, with the usual exceptions, or with its "size-and-weight" authority. That applicant cannot is, we believe, the clear import of Belyea Truck Co. Extension-Litchfield Park, Ariz., 86 M.C.C. 101 (1961). In that decision it was found that the transportation, by the truckaway method, of 75-foot missile trailer chassis was in the province of neither the heavy hauler nor the general-commodities carrier whose authority excepts commodities requiring special equipment. The decision compared prior decisions such as Dealers Transit, Inc., Extension-Cheektowaga, 84 M.C.C. 446 (1961), and L. C. Jones Trucking Co. Extension-The Dakotas, 62 M.C.C. 539 (1954), finding the equipment and methods employed in such transportation lacking in sufficient specialization to warrant the services of a "size-and-weight" carrier, with those such as Ferris & Rossborough, Inc., Extension-Army Vehicles, 66 M.C.C. 95 (1955), finding similar transportation too specialized for the carrier of general freight. The apparent inconsistency in the two lines of cases was resolved by reference to Classification of Motor Carriers of Property, 2 M.C.C. 703 (1937), in which it was recognized that the class of service performed by both carriers of general freight and heavy haulers (then carriers of heavy machinery) differed from that rendered by carriers of motor vehicles, and that each conducted operations within a different field of service. The transportation of trailers, semitrailers, and trailer chassis and semitrailer chassis involves services which are specialized to such an extent that it constitutes a field of service which falls outside the scope of services rendered by carriers of general commodities or a carrier of "sizeand-weight" commodities. Accordingly, applicant may not lawfully join its authority contained in Certificate No. MC-73165 (Sub-No. 206) with either its general-commodities authority or its heavyhauler authority, and that portion of the application set forth in part A of the appendix hereto must be denied. Applicant should be familar with this interpretation since it is consistent with the decision in Eagle's Sub-No. 174 proceeding. See Ashworth Transfer, Inc., Ext.-15,000 Lb. Articles, 103 M.C.C. 404 (1966).

FINDINGS

On reconsideration, we find that the present and future public convenience and necessity require operation by applicant, in interstate or foreign commerce, as a common carrier by motor

vehicle, over irregular routes, of the service described in part B of the appendix hereto; that applicant is fit, willing, and able properly to perform such service and to conform to the requirements of the Interstate Commerce Act and the Commission's rules and regulations threunder; that this decision is not a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; that a certificate authorizing such operations should be granted; and that the application in all other respects should be denied.

Upon compliance by applicant with the requirements of sections 215, 217, and 221(c) of the act, and with the Commission's rules and regulations thereunder, within the time specified in the order entered concurrently herein, an appropriate certificate will be issued.

An appropriate order will be entered.

125 M.C.C.

APPENDIX

A. SERVICE SOUGHT

In addition to the service authorized, applicant seeks the following:

Operation, in interstate or foreign commerce, as a common carrier by motor vehicle, over irregular routes, transporting:

(1) Trailers, semitrailers, and trailer chassis and semitrailer chassis (except those designed to be drawn by passenger automobiles and except those requiring special equipment), in initial or secondary movements, in truckaway service, (a) from points in Georgia, to points in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and that part of Texas on and west of U.S. Highway 81, (b) from points in Georgia on and south of U.S. Highway 278, to points in Arkansas and Missouri, (c) from points in Georgia on and north of U.S. Highway 278, to points in Louisiana, that part of Texas on and east of U.S. Highway 81 (except Dallas and Garland, Tex.), and that part of Mississippi on and south of U.S. Highway 82, (d) from points in Mississippi to points in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Carolina, that part of Virginia east of U.S. Highway 21 (except Richmond, Va.), and that part of North Carolina east of U.S. Highway 221, (e) from points in Mississippi on and south of a line extending from the Arkansas-Mississippi State line along Mississippi Highway 6 to Tupelo, Miss., and thence along U.S. Highway 78 to the Mississippi-Alabama State line, to points in West Virginia, (f) between points in Mississippi on and north of U.S. Highway 82, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Georgia on and south of U.S. Highway 80, (g) between points in Mississippi on and south of U.S. Highway 82, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Georgia on and north of U.S. Highway 78, (h) from points in Mississippi on and north of U.S. Highway 82, to points in Florida on and east of U.S. Highway 41, (i) from points in Tennessee on and east of U.S. Highway 27, to points in Mississippi on and south of Interstate 20, and (j) from points in Tennessee on and west of a line extending from the Tennessee-Kentucky State line along U.S. Highway 41 to Nashville, Tenn., thence along U.S. Highway 31 to the Tennessee-Alabama State line, to points in Florida and those in that part of Georgia on and south of U.S. Highway 80.

(2) Trailers, semitrailers, and trailer chassis and semitrailer chassis (except those designed to be drawn by passenger automobiles), in secondary movments, in truckaway service, restricted to commodities which because of size or weight require the use of special equipment, (a) from points in South Carolina, North Carolina, that part of Tennessee on and east of Interstate Highway 75, and that part of Georgia on and north of U.S. Highway 278, to points in Texas, (b) from points in Georgia on and south of U.S. Highway 278, to points in Texas on and west of U.S. Highway 81, and (c) from points in Louisiana, that part of Mississippi south of U.S. Highway 78, and those points in Texas on and north of U.S. Highway 80 (except Dallas and Garland), to points in Virginia.

B. SERVICE AUTHORIZED

Operation in interstate or foreign commerce, as a common carrier by motor vehicle, over irregular routes, transporting:

(1) Asphalt, in containers (except petroleum products in collapsible C & S containers such as sealdtanks and sealddrums), from Good Hope, La., to points in Tennessee on and east of U.S. Highway 45 and 45W.

(2) Glass containers, (a) from points in Mississippi on and south of U.S. Highway 78, to points in West Virginia, (b) from points in Mississippi on and west of U.S. Highway 51, to points in Kentucky on and West of a line extending from the KentuckyTennessee State line along.U.S. Highway 31-E to Glasgow, Ky., and thence along U.S. Highway 68, to Maysville, Ky., and (c) from points in Tennessee on and north of a line beginning at Memphis, Tenn., and extending along Interstate Highway 40 to Nashville, Tenn., and thence along U.S. Highway 31E to the Kentucky-Tennessee State line, to points in Louisiana (except New Orleans, La.), restricted against service from the facilities of Knox Glass Company located in Rankin County, Miss., and against service at Memphis, Tenn., and points in its commercial zone, as defined by the Commission. (3) Glass containers (except those requiring special equipment, those of unusual value, and household goods as defined in Practices of Motor Common Carriers of Household Goods, 17 M.C.C. 467), (a) from the facilities of Knox Glass Company located in Rankin County, Miss., to points in Tennessee on and east of U.S. Highway 41 and points in Georgia on and north of U.S. Highway 78, and (b) from Memphis, Tenn., to points in Florida, and that part of Georgia on and south of U.S. Highway 80. (4) Pipe and pipefittings, cast iron meter boxes, manhole frames, and manhole covers, (except those which because of size or weight require the use of special equipment, and except pipe and pipefittings such as are included in the first findings of the Commission in Mercer Extension-Oil Field Commodities, 74 M.C.C. 459 and 543), (a) between points in Nevada, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, that part of Arkansas on and east of U.S. Highway 67, that part of Kentucky on and south of a line extending from Paducah, Ky., along U.S. Highway 68 to Glasgow, Ky., thence along Kentucky Highway 80 to Pikeville, Ky., and thence along U.S. Highway 119 to the Kentucky-West Virginia State line, and that part of Virginia on and south of U.S. Highway 60, (b) between points in Nevada on and south of U.S. Highway 50, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, that part of Kentucky on and south of Interstate Highway 64, West Virginia, on and south of U.S. Highway 50, New Jersey on and south of U.S. Highway 30, and Philadelphia, Pa., (c) between points in Utah, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and that part of Arkansas on and east of U.S. Highway 67, (d) between points in Utah on and south of U.S. Highway 50, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Kentucky on and south of a line beginning at Paducah, Ky., and extending along U.S. Highway 62 to Lexington, Ky., and thence along Interstate Highway 64 to Ashland, Ky., and points in West Virginia and Virginia, on and south of U.S. Highway 60, (e) between points in Arizona on and south of a line extending from the Arizona-California State line along U.S. Highway 60 to Phoenix, Ariz., and thence along U.S. Highway 70 to the Arizona-New Mexico State line, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Missouri on and south of U.S. Highway 66, (f) between points in New Mexico, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, that part of Arkansas on and east of U.S. Highway 67, and that part of Kentucky on and east of a line extending from the Kentucky-Tennessee State line along U.S. Highway 31W to Bowling Green, Ky., and thence along U.S. Highway 68 to Maysville, Ky., (g) between points in New Mexico on and south of U.S. Highway 66, on the one hand, and, on the

other, points in Kentucky and Ohio, and (h) between points in New Mexico on and south of U.S. Highway 60, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Indiana on and south of U.S. Highway 24.

(5) Iron and steel pipe and pipefittings, cast iron meter boxes, manhole frames, and manhole covers (except those which because of size or weight require the use of special equipment, and except pipe and pipefittings, such as are included in the first findings of the Commission in Mercer Extension-Oil Field Commodities, 74 M.C.C. 459 and 543, (a) between Houston and Galveston, Tex. and points in Harris and Galveston Counties, Tex., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, (b) between points in Texas on and south of a line extending from Galveston, Tex., along U.S. Highway 75 to Houston, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 90 to San Antonio, Tex., and thence along U.S. Highway 281 to Brownsville, Tex., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Arkansas, that part of Oklahoma on and east of U.S. Highway 75, and that part of Kansas on and east of U.S. Highway 81, (c) between points in Texas on and east of a line extending from Brownsville, Tex., along U.S. Highway 77 to Victoria, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 59 to Houston, Tex., and thence along U.S. Highway 75 to Galveston, Tex., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Oklahoma and Kansas, and (d) between points in Morris, Upshur, Harrison, Wood and Gregg Counties, Tex., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and that part of Kansas and Missouri on and north of U.S. Highway 40. (6) Iron and steel pipe, pipefittings, meter boxes, manhole frames, and manhole covers (except those which because of size or weight require the use of special equipment, and except pipe and pipefittings such as are included in the first findings of the Commission in Mercer Extension-Oil Field Commodities, 74 M.C.C. 429 and 543), (a) between Houston and Galveston, Tex., and points in Harris and Galveston Counties, Tex., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and New Mexico, (b) between points in Texas on and southeast of a line extending from Texarkana, Tex., along U.S. Highway 67 to Dallas, Tex., and thence along U.S. Highway 75 to Galveston, Tex., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and that part of Colorado on and north of U.S. Highway 6, (c) between points in Colorado and New Mexico, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Texas on and east of a line extending from Texarkana, Tex., along U.S. Highway 67 to Mount Vernon, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 271 to Tyler, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 69 to Lufkin, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 59 to Houston, Tex., and thence along U.S. Highway 75 to Galveston, Tex., (d) between points in Louisiana, on the one hand, and, on the other, points in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and points in Nebraska on and north of U.S. Highway 6, (e) between points in Lousiana on and south of a line extending from the Texas-Louisiana State line along U.S. Highway 80 to Shreveport, La., thence along U.S. Highway 71 to junction with U.S. Highway 190, thence along U.S. Highway 190 to Baton Rouge, La., and thence along U.S. Highway 61 to New Orleans, La., on the one hand, and, on the other, points in Nebraska, and (f) between points in Texas on and within a line extending from Galveston, Tex., along U.S. Highway 75 to Buffalo, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 79 to Round Rock, Tex., thence along U.S. Highway 81 to San Antonio, Tex., and thence along U.S. Highway 281 to Brownsville, Tex., on the