Alabama Administrative Code › Title 770 - ALABAMA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Chapter 770-X-10 - MOTOR CARRIER GENERAL ORDERS AND REGULATIONS PAMPHLET NO. 2003 › Section 770-X-10-.06-.14 - Filing And Posting Schedules And Contracts

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) FILING. The carrier or agent shall submit
					for filing with this Commission two (2) copies of its contracts which contain
					rates and charges and all of its schedules and supplements. Additional copies
					as may be needed by the Commission in the performance of its official duties
					will be furnished upon reasonable request.
In addition to any copies of existing or future contracts which
						are or may be required to be filed with the Commission for any purpose, except
						as provided in the preceding paragraph, every contract carrier of property by
						motor vehicle shall file with the Commission a copy of all existing or future
						contracts for the purpose of ascertaining the application of the rates,
						charges, rules, regulations and practices of such carrier or carriers.
(2) MULTIPLE CONTRACTS. When a
					contract carrier has more than one contract covering similar but not identical
					services or contracts covering identical services for which different rates of
					compensation are provided by the contracts, exceptional care must be exercised
					to accomplish publication of clear and explicit schedule provisions that
					reflect applicable rates, charges, rules or practices. In such a case, the
					carrier may publish a separate schedule for each contract provided the carrier
					submits in the same envelope with the schedule, when tendered for filing, a
					separate statement identifying the contract in connection with which the
					schedule applies. If rates, charges and other provisions applying in connection
					with more than one contract are published in a single schedule, the carrier
					filing the schedule shall submit in the same envelope with the schedule, when
					tendered for filing, a separate statement indicating as to each rate table,
					charge, item, rule or regulation, the contract or contracts in connection with
					which that rate table, charge, item, rule or regulation applies.
(3) NOTICE. In computing the number of days
					notice the Commission and the public have before a schedule, supplement or
					revised page is scheduled to become effective, the first calendar day after it
					has been placed on file with the Commission will be counted as the first day.
					The Commission offices are closed on Saturdays, Sundays and legal State
					holidays, and any schedules or supplements or amended contracts received on
					these days will be officially stamped as being received on the next business
					day.
Carriers and agents shall certify to the Commission that copies
						of all such filings were transmitted to all shippers, receivers or others who
						regularly receive them at the same time they were transmitted for filing with
						the Commission; this certification may be accomplished by making a statement of
						certification on the letter of transmittal to the Commission. If filings are
						hand delivered to the Commission, transmittal to such subscribers shall be by
						hand deliveries or by First Class U.S. Mail; filings transmitted to the
						Commission by mail shall be transmitted to such subscribers by the same class
						mail as to the Commission. The above certification shall include the manner in
						which transmitted to subscribers.
(4) POSTING SCHEDULES. Each carrier shall
					maintain a complete file of all schedules issued by it or its agent, including
					all schedules in which it concurs as a participating carrier at its general
					office and its principal office located in the State of Alabama, and, to the
					extent practicable, at each of its terminals in the State of Alabama showing
					all the rates, charges, rules and regulations which are applicable from or to
					the points served by such individual terminal. All such schedule files
					maintained by the carrier shall be accessible and open to public inspection
					during regularly recognized business hours.
Author:
Alabama Public Service Commission
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
							1975
, §§
										37-3-5,
							37-3-7,
							37-3-20.