Common Carrier An individual, a company, or a public utility (like municipal buses) that is in the regular business of transporting people or freight, and must do so as long as the approved charge or fare is paid.
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Common carriers are generally of two descriptions, namely carriers by land and carriers by water.
Common Carrier
It is an individual or a company that transports people or goods on hire from one place to another for a specific amount of fees charged.
Common Carrier: Freight transportation company which serves the general public. May be regular route service (over designated highways on a regular basis) or irregular route (between various points on an unscheduled basis).
common carrier
n. an individual, a company or a public utility (like municipal buses) which is in the regular business of transporting people and/or freight.
COMMON CARRIER, contracts. One who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of any who may choose to employ him, from place to place. 1 Pick. 50, 53; 1 Salk. 249, 250; Story, Bailm. 495 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1020.
Common carrier
Definition - Noun
: a business or agency that is available to the public for transportation of persons, goods, or messages
compare contract carrier ...
Common Carrier Bureau
The Common Carrier Bureau regulates interstate common carrier communications by telephone.
Contrasted with common carrier.
"Carriers by land are either common carriers or private carriers. Whether the carrier is a common carrier or not is a question of fact.
The obligation to act with care may arise out of a relationship established by contract, as in the duty assumed by a common carrier (e.g., a railroad) in preserving goods and passengers from damage or injury.
The Federal statute applies only to common carriers engaged in interstate commerce, and provides for an attempt to be made at mediation by two designated government officials in controversies between common carriers and their employes, and, ...
the transportation of people or goods by a common carrier who services the general public without discrimination.
Aviation Law
the area of law dealing with the operation of civilian aircraft often under the control of a common carrier. This legal arena usually focuses on airline disasters and wrongful death.
AVR
Automated Voice Response System ...
Aside from private car accidents there are also a great number of related public transportation accidents. The Federal Government is the one regulating the common carriers that transport passengers...
 See also: Carrier, Person, Law, Contra, State
  
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