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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.
ICC Termination Act of 1995; Long title: To abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission, to amend subtitle IV of title 49, United States Code, to reform economic regulation of transportation, and for other purposes. Enacted by: the 104th United States Congress: Effective: December 29, 1995: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 104–88 (text) Statutes ...
Develops and enforces data-driven regulations that balance motor carrier (truck and bus companies) safety with efficiency; Harnesses safety information systems to focus on higher risk carriers in enforcing the safety regulations; Provide the information on consumer complaints, authority status, and carrier insurance;
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 initial bumper regulations were intended to prevent functional damage to a vehicle's safety-related components such as lights and fuel system components when subjected to barrier crash tests at 5 miles per hour (8 km/h) at the front and 2.5 mph (4 km/h) at the rear. [33]