Examining Current Conditions in the Trucking Industry and the Possible Necessity for Change in the Manner and Scope of Its Regulations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives First Session ...

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Stranica 193 - ... developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Stranica 518 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act...
Stranica 209 - Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each, to promote safe, adequate, economical and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers, to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices...
Stranica 209 - Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the Inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...
Stranica 192 - ... to establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable rates, charges, and classifications, and just and reasonable regulations and practices...
Stranica 67 - ... are a large part of the total costs of a firm, and when, as a consequence of the techniques of production, the consumer is unable to shop around. The essence of competition is that it provides the incentive to strive for profits and the compulsion to go somewhere else if they are not forthcoming. Reliance on competition keeps costs to the consuming public at the minimum necessary to attract the services for which it is willing to pay. There is no danger of rates rising above that level if competition...
Stranica 61 - Producer Protection, Prior Market Structure, and the Effects of Government Regulation," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.
Stranica 872 - It shall be the duty of every common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle to establish reasonable through routes with other such common carriers and to provide safe and adequate service, equipment, and facilities for the transportation of passengers in interstate or foreign commerce...
Stranica 518 - Service and commerce ; (2) To encourage and promote full competition between modes of transportation at charges not less than reasonable minimum charges, or more than reasonable maximum charges, so as to encourage technical innovations, the development of new rate and service techniques, and the increase of operating and managerial efficiency, full use of facilities and equipment, and the highest standards of service, economy, efficiency and benefit to the transportation user and the ultimate consumer,...
Stranica 518 - To reduce economic regulation of the transportation industry to the minimum consistent with the public interest to the end that the inherent economic advantages, including cost and service advantages, of each mode of transportation, may be realized in such a manner so as to reflect its full competitive capabilities; and 5.

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