The Illinois Truck Act 



(Continued from page 6) 

 motor vehicles transporting baggage 

 or other personal effects as an incident 

 to the transportation of f>ersons, and 

 motor vehicles used primarily for the 

 transportation of persons and only oc- 

 casionally for transporting property. 

 The requirements also apply to trailers 

 which are used for the transportation 

 of property except that trailers having 

 a gross weight of 2,000 pounds and 

 less, including the weight of the trailer 

 and the maximum load and not used 

 for the transportation of property for 

 hire, are exempt. 



Ten Classifications 



The Act divides truck operators into 

 ten different classes, namely, line haul 

 carriers, local carriers, contract carriers, 

 private carriers, merchant carriers, sp>e- 

 cialized carriers, interstate carriers, 

 agricultural cooperative carriers, state 

 and municipal carriers, and miscellan- 

 eous carriers. Detailed provisions are 

 made for the regulation of each of 

 these classes. In this article we shall 

 deal with only the private carriers, line 

 haul carriers and local carriers, as these 

 classifications are of most general in- 

 terest. 



"Private Carriers" are defined as per- 

 sons regularly engaged in some busi- 

 ness of transporting property for com- 

 pensation who use a truck and trans- 

 port property as an incident to that 

 other business. The farmer who is a 

 truck owner and who uses the truck in 

 his farming operations and does not do 

 any hauling for hire would be classified 

 as a private carrier. "Line Haul Car- 

 riers" are defined as persons who un- 

 dertake to transport property by truck 

 for compensation for the general pub- 

 lic in intrastate commerce over regular 

 routes and between fixed termini. "Lo- 

 cal Carriers" are defined as persons 

 who undertake to transport by truck 

 for compensation for the general pub- 

 lic in interstate commerce but not 

 operating over regular routes and be- 

 tween fixed termini. These carriers 

 are required to secure a certificate in 

 the case of the line haul carriers' and 

 a permit in the case of the local- car- 

 rier, from the State Department author- 

 izing their operation; each is required 

 to have cargo insurance protecting the 

 shippers using his service; each is re- 

 quired to use a Dill-of-Lading ki a 

 form to be prescribed by the Depart- 

 ment; each is required to report, iany 

 additions to or changes in his e<(uip- 

 ment within ten days after the ac- 

 quisition of such equipment and each 

 is required to make annual reports to 

 the Department. The Department fur- 

 ther may require periodic or special 



reports. These requirements are in 

 addition to the requirements which ap- 

 ply to all truck operators. 



Certificates or Permits 



The law provides that application 

 for certificates or permits may be made 

 after November 1, 1939 and requires 

 that the certificate or permit be ob- 

 tained by March 1, 1940. The law con- 

 tains a so-called "grandfather clause" 

 under which any op>erator who was 

 operating on July 25, 1939 may, up>on 

 application and compliance with the 

 other provisions of the Act, receive a 

 certificate or permit, as the case may be, 

 without showing that public conven- 

 ience and necessity require the truck 

 operation. In the case of truck oper- 

 ators who were not operating on July 

 25, 1939 and who thereafter make ap- 

 plication for certificates to operate as 

 a line haul carrier, the law requires 

 that they show that the proposed serv- 

 ice is required by public convenience 

 and necessity before the certificate may 

 be issued. In the case of local carriers 

 not operating on July 25, 1939 who 

 thereafter apply for permits to operate 

 as a local carrier, they too are required 

 to show that public convenience and 

 necessity require the proposed service 

 but affidavits of twenty-five shippers 

 resident within the proposed area of 

 operation of the applicant, stating that 

 the propKJsed service is required are, 

 under the law, made conclusive proof 

 of public convenience and necessity. 

 The certificates issued to line haul car- 

 riers will specify routes and the ter- 

 mini or the territory in which the car- 

 rier may operate and thereafter he will 

 be confined to operations within that 

 territory. 



Local Carriers Base Point 



Local carriers are required to desig- 

 nate a base point and their of>erations 

 are confined to transportation within 

 or for persons residing within a radius 

 of fifty miles from that base point. 

 They may transport property between 

 any points within this local area; may 

 transport property from any point 

 within the area for a shipper within 

 the area to any point outside the area, 

 or may transport property from any 

 point without the area to a person with- 

 in the area. These local carriers, in 

 other words, are restricted to transpor- 

 tation within the area or to transporta- 

 tion either from or to points within 

 the area. They may not transport 

 property between points outside the 

 area. 



Branch Offices — No Fee 



The Department of Public Works 

 and Buildings has advised that it plans 

 to set up branch offices in each of the 

 thirteen state highway police districts 

 of the State for the assistance of truck- 



ers in making their applications and 

 complying with the law. The Depart- 

 ment also plans to arrange to have 

 representatives available in every 

 county seat on certain days in each 

 week. They advise that a schedule of 

 the days upon which the county offices 

 will be open will be announced 

 through local papers in the various 

 counties. The Department points out 

 that while the law provides that appli- 

 cation may be made on November 1, 

 the deadline for compliance is March 

 1, 1940 and no rights, so far as state 

 operation is concerned, will be lost if 

 the truckers wait until these branch of- 

 fices are opened. There will be no 

 charge for the services of the State 

 Department and no filing fees of any 

 kind are required for compliance with 

 this law. 



cs 



Ray Ammon Leaves 



Ray N. Ammon, resigned his posi- 

 tion with the feed division of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company this month. 

 He and Mrs. Am- 

 mon and their 2- 

 year-old son, Doug- 

 las, will move to 

 ^^g-jj, n-- Kansas City, Mis- 



M ^ souri, about Janu- 



MPj^ \ ary 1 where Ray 



^^_.^^^^ will be employed 

 ^^^'V^^^^B by a feed milling 

 ^^^^^^^^H company. 

 ^^^^■^^^^H Ray, a 



White county and 

 Hay Ammon ^ graduate of the 



college of agriculture. University of 

 Illinois, started work with IFS, June, 

 1936fc, in the jjetroleum division. Six 

 momhs later, plans were completed for 

 the distribution of Blue Seal feeds and 

 Ray was shifted to that division. Under 

 his general stewardship, feed sales 

 reached approximately 10,000 tons in 

 1939 or a gain of 37 percent more 

 than 1938. 



Farmers See Erosion Teste 



Their fall work out of the way, 154 

 farmers from ten western Illinois coun- 

 ties visited the oldest federal soil erosion 

 experimental field in the U. S. at Beth- 

 any, Mo., Nov. 21. The field was estab- 

 lished in 1929. County Farm Bureaus 

 represented were Henry, Knox, Peoria, 

 Henderson, Stark, Mercer, Warren, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam and Hancock. They made 

 the trip in a special streamlined train on 

 the Burlington road. Most dramatic ex- 

 periment inspected shows the effect of 

 erosion on a 7% slope under different 

 cropping systems. Soil removed in the 

 eight years of the test is kept in covered 

 bins for actual comparisons. 



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