Ala. Admin. Code r. 770-X-10-.16

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 770-X-10-.16 - Interstate Highway Deviation Rules

(1) A common carrier by motor vehicle over a regular route or over regular routes, whose certificate of public convenience and necessity does not authorize operations over limited access highways may operate over a limited access highway route only under the following conditions:

(a) The limited access highway route, including highways or roads connecting it with the carrier's authorized route or routes, must:

1. Extend in the same general direction as the carrier's authorized route or routes;

2. Be wholly within twenty-five (25) air miles of the carrier's authorized route or routes, or be at least 80% of the distance over the carrier's route or routes which the carrier would otherwise travel; and

3. Not result in any diminution of service to any point or place served by the carrier without operating over the limited access highway route.

(b) The carrier must file with this Commission a letter of intent to operate over a limited access highway route specifying the route over which it intends to operate, the portion of the authorized regular route or routes which will be eliminated, the reasons for the proposed deviation, and a statement that there will be no diminution of service as prescribed in (a) (iii) above.

(c) The carrier may commence operations over the limited access highway route only after the letter of intent in (b) above is approved by order of the Commission or after the Commission has taken no action for sixty (60) days after receipt of the letter.

(d) Nothing herein shall authorize service at a point or place not otherwise authorized.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 770-X-10-.16

Effective January 1978. Filed with LRS February 5, 2013. Filed for Codification in the Alabama Administrative Code by the Alabama Public Service Commission on February 5, 2013, pursuant to Code of Ala. 1975, § 41-22-7.

Author: Alabama Public Service Commission

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 37-3-5, 37-3-7, 37-3-12, 37-3-22.