Oversight of the Household Goods Transportation Act of 1980: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session on Oversight of the Household Goods Transportation Act of 1980, November 8, 1983, Parte1

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Página 51 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this act, than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited...
Página 27 - An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes," approved October 15, 1914. (2) Any carrier party to an agreement between or among two or more carriers relating to rates, fares, classifications, divisions, allowances, or charges (including charges between carriers and compensation paid or received for the use of facilities and equipment), or rules and regulations pertaining thereto, or procedures for the joint consideration, initiation or establishment...
Página 45 - Rates, fares, and charges applying between points in the United States, on the one hand, and points in foreign countries, on the other hand...
Página 56 - The thesis of this book has been that modern antitrust has so decayed that the policy is no longer intellectually respectable. Some of it is not respectable as law; more of it is not respectable as economics; and now I wish to suggest that, because it pretends to one objective while frequently accomplishing its opposite, and because it too often forwards trends dangerous to our form of government and society, a great deal of antitrust is not even respectable as politics.
Página 61 - ... that might cause a substantial diversion of their sales. The last point is too little stressed. In other areas of discourse we posit a marketplace of ideas in which good ideas can be expected to prevail in open competition with bad. One could quite reasonably take a similar approach to advertising. Individuals probably know a good deal more about household products than about political questions. If we trust them to evaluate competing and often fraudulent claims by political candidates, we should...
Página 27 - ... the carrier being represented; and (vii) the organization shall make a final disposition of a rule or rate docketed with it by the 120th day after the proposal is docketed, except that if unusual circumstances require, the organization may extend such period, subject to review by the Commission. (C) No agreement approved under this subsection may provide for discussion of or voting on rates to which the provisions of section 10708(d) or 10730(b) of this title apply, except that rates established...
Página 26 - If the tractor is driven 60-thousand miles during the year, the company must process approximately 300 log, mileage and fuel records and 285 fuel receipts. The fuel accounting requires a detailed audit, as there are 34 different sets of requirements in the 38 states with fuel tax reporting laws.
Página 59 - ... opportunities to produce. He does not see that restrictions of this type are, in the conditions of the perennial gale, incidents, often unavoidable incidents, of a long-run process of expansion which they protect rather than impede. There is no more of paradox in this than there is in saying that motorcars are traveling faster than they otherwise would because they are provided with brakes.
Página 56 - As stated in chapter ii, the great disadvantage of either governmental regulation or governmental operation of monopoly is that it is exceedingly difficult to reverse. In consequence, I am inclined to urge that the least of the evils is private unregulated monopoly wherever this is tolerable. Dynamic changes are highly likely to undermine it and there is at least some chance that these will be allowed to have their effect. And even in the short run, there is generally a wider range of substitutes...
Página 58 - At the same time, the welfare gains from successful prosecution of horizontal-restraint cases are likely to be slight, since the costs of reaching and maintaining an effective agreement in the less regulated environment are substantially higher, and therefore the probability of success is substantially lower.

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