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The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers, including interstate bus lines and telephone companies.
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is an independent federal agency that serves as an adjudicatory board.The board was created in 1996 following the abolition of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and absorbed regulatory powers relevant to the railroad industry previously under the ICC's purview.
Part 555: [97] Temporary exemptions from motor vehicle safety and bumper standards; Part 556: [98] Exemption for inconsequential defect or noncompliance; Part 557: [99] Petitions for hearings on notification and remedy of defects; Part 563: [100] Event data recorders; Part 564: [101] Replaceable light source and sealed beam headlamp information
Countries participating in the (1958 agreement) World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations. Japan applies and is a member of the following UNECE regulations [12] 3, approval of retro-reflecting devices for power-driven vehicles and their trailers; 4, illumination of rear registration plates of power-driven vehicles and their trailers
Motor carrier deregulation was a part of a sweeping reduction in price controls, entry controls, and collective vendor price setting in United States transportation, begun in 1970-71 with initiatives in the Richard Nixon Administration, carried out through the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Administrations, and continued into the 1980s, collectively seen as a part of deregulation in the United ...
The ICC has developed and moulded the UCP by regular revisions, the current version being the UCP 600. The result is the most successful international attempt at unifying rules ever, as the UCP has substantially universal effect. The latest revision was approved by the Banking Commission of the ICC at its meeting in Paris on 25 October 2006.
[2] [3] The Act created a federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which it charged with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations. With the passage of the Act, the railroad industry became the first industry subject to federal regulation by a regulatory body. [1]
The National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) is a North American voluntary standard that provides a comparison of commodities moving in interstate, intrastate and international commerce via freight shipment.