Interstate Barriers to Truck Transportation: History and Current Status of Regulations Regarding Size and Weight, Taxes and Other Selected Phases that Affect TruckingUnited States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1950 - Interstate commerce - 117 pages |
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Page 19 - ... received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Page 18 - The interfering and unneighborly regulations of some States, contrary to the true spirit of the Union, have, in different instances, given just cause of umbrage and complaint to others ; and it is to be feared that examples of this nature, if not restrained by a national control, would be multiplied and extended till they became not less serious sources of animosity and discord, than injurious impediments to the intercourse between the different parts of the confederacy.
Page 18 - It may be doubted whether any of the evils proceeding from the feebleness of the federal government contributed more to that great revolution which introduced the present system than the deep and general conviction that commerce ought to be regulated by congress.
Page 18 - Federal government contributed more to that great revolution which introduced the present system than the deep and general conviction that commerce ought to be regulated by Congress. It is not, therefore, matter of surprise that the grant should be as extensive as the mischief, and should comprehend all foreign commerce, and all commerce among the States. To construe the power so as to impair its...
Page 16 - ... But for the proper maintenance of our federal system, and more particularly for the rigorous safeguarding of the national interests in interstate commerce, it is not sufficient that a State exact no more than the value of what it gives — with all the elusiveness of determining such value. A State must not play favorites in the operation of its taxing system between business confined within its borders and the common interests of the nation expressed through business conducted across State lines....
Page 14 - The Connecticut tax here involved does not discriminate against interstate commerce. It is not burdensome to interstate commerce. It does not attempt to reach activities beyond the borders of Connecticut. It is not susceptible of being repeated by any other state. It is not a levy upon the privilege of engaging in interstate commerce. It is a proper and reasonable excise upon the privileges which Connecticut freely grants to all alike.
Page 16 - Such favoritism is barred whether it is overtly designed or results from the actual operation of a taxing scheme. The Maryland tax does not obviously discriminate against interstate commerce. But a tax for the privilege of road use may impose serious disadvantages upon that commerce. So long as a State bases its tax on a relevant measure of actual road use, obviously both interstate and intrastate carriers pay according to the facilities in fact provided by the State. But a tax levied for the privilege...
Page 45 - ALR 1347, infra, under subhead — "safety of public." — safety of public. Section 325 of the Motor Carrier Act, 49 USCA, provides as follows: "The Commission is hereby authorized to investigate and report on the need for Federal regulation of the sizes and weights of motor vehicles...
Page 46 - ... this work, it became definitely clear that certain types of restrictive trade legislation were forming bottlenecks in defense production. Business groups and others met in various States to discuss remedies. On October 16, 1940, an important conference was held in Los Angeles under the auspices of the United States Department of Commerce and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The joint conference included the Chamber of Commerce, the southern California chapter of the American Marketing Association,...
Page 58 - Office of Defense Transportation, A Review of Highway Transport and Transit Industries During the War.