Word: icc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their higher bills, railroads last week were getting ready to request their 15th freight-rate hike since World War II (total freight-rate increase since then: 107%). The Interstate Commerce Commission will look kindly upon the request. When the rails got their last rate raise in August, the ICC conceded that it was not enough, and invited them to come back for "further moderate increases." But ICC stipulated that this time the rails must ask for rate increases item by item, rather than an overall boost...
...miles and our accident frequency for each 100,000 miles of driving was 1.24. Included are accidents involving dented fenders, and those in which our vehicles were legally parked and struck by another vehicle. It is not my purpose to have a statistical debate with the ICC, but I do not feel that our record is shocking when viewed in a true light. The area in which we operate includes about two-thirds of our nation's population...
...TOUGH POLICY of ICC is starting to trip up accident-prone trucking lines. After threatening to ban six other truckers (TIME, Sept. 16), commission ordered one-year probation for Kansas City's big Riss & Co., whose 500-plus interstate trucks from 1951 to 1953 "were involved in 1,200 accidents resulting in shocking total of 51 deaths and 501 injuries." ICC's ultimatum: Riss must drastically improve safety record or be barred from highways...
SAFETY VIOLATIONS by truckers are worrying ICC, which is pushing to bar six of the offending truck lines from highways, plans to get tough with all lines. In nationwide spot check, ICC inspectors surveyed 50,000 trucks, stopped about 25% because they looked or sounded unsafe. Closer examination showed that 88% of them violated at least one safety rule governing interstate trucking and that 19% were in hazardous condition...
RAIL-FARE HIKE will send up first-class tickets by 15% on six eastern lines. Together with recent 5% raise, this makes total 20% boost approved by ICC in 1957, brings per-mile first-class rates...