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Article: Prevent freight savings givebacks. (column)
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- Gifts & Decorative Accessories
- Article date:
- September 1, 1990
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Unless you're careful, in a few years from now you may be forced to pay back hefty discounts you are currently receiving on your motor carrier freight bills. That warning - from this writer comes in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down in late June in which the high court reaffirmed the so-called "filed rate doctrine." This doctrine asserts that if a rate differs from what is on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C., the ICC has the final word - no matter what rate a motor common carrier quotes to you over the phone, in a letter or in a person, of places on its freight bill. Since the passage of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, ...