Interstate Commerce Act -- Agricultural Exemptions: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5823, a Bill to Amend Section 203 (b)(6) of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended. April 23, 24, and 25, 1958Considers legislation to terminate motor carriers exemption from ICC regulation for interstate transport of frozen foods and manufactured agricultural products. |
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Page 121 - As some indication of the volume of unregulated traffic, according to a study made by the Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Page 293 - ... motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shell fish) , or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), if such motor vehicles are not used in carrying any other property, or passengers, for compensation...
Page 381 - Section 210, a certificate shall be issued to any qualified applicant therefor, authorizing the whole or any part of the operations covered by the application, if it is found that the applicant is fit, willing, and able properly to perform the service proposed...
Page 63 - Act, shall the provisions of this part, except the provisions of section 204 relative to qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees and safety of operation or standards of equipment...
Page 172 - ... empowered to make such order in cases where rates dependent upon and varying with declared or agreed values would, in its opinion, be just and reasonable under the circumstances and conditions surrounding the transportation. The term 'ordinary livestock...
Page 293 - Commodity List" incorporated in ruling numbered 107, March 19, 1958, Bureau of Motor Carriers, Interstate Commerce Commission...
Page 340 - ... the Commission shall issue such certificate without requiring further proof that public convenience and necessity will be served by such operation, and without further proceedings...
Page 298 - To establish for private carriers of property by motor vehicle, if need therefor is found, reasonable requirements to promote safety of operation, and to that end prescribe qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees, and standards of equipment.
Page 117 - ... motor vehicles controlled and operated by a cooperative association as defined in the Agricultural Marketing Act, approved June 15, 1929, as amended...
Page 117 - ... cooperative association as defined in the Agricultural Marketing Act, approved June 15, 1929, as amended, or by a federation of such cooperative associations, if such federation possesses no greater powers or purposes than cooperative associations so defined...