92 STAT. 1338
PUBLIC LAW 95-473—OCT. 17, 1978
(5) to cooperate with each State and the officials of each State on transportation matters; and (6) to encourage fair wages and working conditions in the transportation industry. <v (b) This subtitle shall be administered and enforced to carry out the policy of this section. 49 USC 10102. § 10102. Definitions In this subtitle— (1) "broker" means a person, other than a motor carrier or an employee or agent of a motor carrier, that as a principal or agent sells, offers for sale, negotiates for, or holds itself out by solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise as selling, providing, or ' arranging for, transportation by motor carrier for compensation. (2) "carrier" means a common carrier and a contract carrier. (3) "car service" includes (A) the use, control, supply, movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of locomotives, cars, other vehicles, and special types of equipment used in the transportation of property by a rail carrier, and (B) the supply of trains by a rail carrier. (4) "common carrier" means an express carrier, a pipeline carrier, a rail carrier, a sleeping car carrier, a motor common carrier, a water common carrier, and a freight forwarder. (5) "contract carrier" means a motor contract carrier and a water contract carrier. (6) "control", when referring to a relationship between persons, includes actual control, legal control, and the power to exercise control, through or by (A) common directors, officers, stockholders, a voting trust, or a holding or investment company, or (B) any other means. (7) "express carrier" means a person providing express transportation for compensation. (8) "freight forwarder" means a person holding itself out to the general public (other than as an express, pipeline, rail, sleeping car, motor, or water carrier) to provide transportation of property for compensation and in the ordinary course of its business— (A) assembles and consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, shipments and performs or provides for break-bulk and distribution operations of the shipments; • f©^^^ -^'--'* ' (B) assumes responsibility for the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination; and (C) uses for any part of the transportation a carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission under subchapter I, II, or III of chapter 105 of this Post, pp. 1359, title. 1361, 1365. (9) "highway" means a road, highway, street, and way in a State. (10) "motor carrier" means a motor common carrier and a 1 motor contract carrier. (11) "motor common carrier" means a person holding itself out to the general public to provide motor vehicle transportation for compensation over regular or irregular routes, or both. (12) "motor contract carrier" means a person, other than a motor common carrier, providing motor vehicle transportation for compensation under continuing agreements with a person or a limited number of persons—
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