Common Carrier
A transportation company that offers - indeed, must offer - its services to all customers in exchange for compensation, as differentiated from a contract carrier, which carries goods exclusively for one shipper.
Common carriers may generally be divided into property carriers (those transporting people and/or physical goods) and utilities (those transporting some service such as communications or public utilities).
Common Carrier
A railroad or other carrier that carries any passengers or freight and not just contract passengers or freight from one customer.
Communicating Signal ...
An order issue by a common carrier or public regulatory agency that prohibits the acceptance of some or all kinds of freight for transportation on the carrier's lines or between specified points or areas, because of traffic congestion, ...
These railroads are also used to move freight between an industrial complex and a nearby common carrier.
Inspection Car - self propelled service vehicle used for inspecting track ...
Hawaiian railroading, both past and present, including plantation lines, common carriers, sugar production, and structure on Oahu and Maui. Sun, sand, surf, and trains.
Receipt by the consignee of a shipment, thus terminating the common carrier liability.
Accessorial Charges ...
Industrial operations such as in plant railroads that are not common carriers are not required to equip their locomotives with event recorders.
 See also: Engine, Truck, Track, Locomotive, Standard
  
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