ICC upholds discount plans. (Interstate Commerce Commission)(Transportation News)

From: Purchasing | Date: July 18, 1991 | Copyright information

Motor-carrier discount practices that provide a measure of confidentiality for customers will remain legal as the result of a recent Interstate Commerce Commission decision. But another vote leaves shippers facing undercharge claims from defunct carriers who were left without a rate reasonableness standard they hoped would pass.

The ICC refused to declare illegal either range-of-discount tariffs or customer-account-code tariffs. The Regular Common Carrier Conference, a trade group for the less-than-truckload industry, had asked the ICC to bar the use of either mechanism, ...

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