(a) Maximum and minimum rates. Each household goods carrier required to procure a certificate under this chapter shall file with the Commissioner of Transportation in simple and concise form an exact schedule or schedules of rates and charges for transportation to be rendered or furnished within this state and show the terminal or other services included therein. The commissioner may prescribe maximum or minimum or maximum and minimum rates or charges for substantially the same or similar service performed by the various household goods carriers, and may, upon his own motion or upon petition by an interested party, after hearing, prescribe reasonable regulations and maximum or minimum or maximum and minimum rates or charges covering the operations of household goods carriers. Rates and charges shall be just and reasonable and reasonably compensatory, except that a rate may be established to meet the existing rate of a competing household goods carrier or a household goods carrier not subject to this chapter.

(b) Joint rates. Carriers of household goods by motor vehicle may establish reasonable through routes and joint rates, charges and classifications with other such carriers or with household goods carriers by railroad, or express, or water or with any two or more thereof. In case of such joint rates, fares or charges, the carriers who are parties thereto shall establish just and reasonable regulations and practices in connection therewith, and just, reasonable and equitable division thereof as between carriers participating therein which shall not unfairly prefer or prejudice any of such participating carriers. If the carriers fail to agree upon such a division between them of joint rates, fares or charges, the Commissioner of Transportation shall, after hearing, establish by order such a division.

(1949 Rev., S. 5681; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 137, 348; P.A. 88-249, S. 2, 9; P.A. 95-126, S. 9, 25.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 88-249 transferred powers and duties from public utility control department to transportation department, amending section as required by section 2 of the act codified as Sec. 13b-387a), effective July 1, 1989. (Revisor's note: Statute published in both Title 16 and Title 13b in the Connecticut General Statutes, Revision of 1958, revised to 1989; Sec. 16-287 transferred to Sec. 13b-393, effective July 1, 1989); P.A. 95-126 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “household goods carrier” for references to “motor common carrier” and “common carrier” and deleted the phrase “subject to the provisions of section 16-289” in the exception, and amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “carriers of household goods” for reference to “common carriers of property” and “household goods carriers” for “common carriers”, effective July 1, 1995.

Annotations to former section 16-287:

Power to make regulations discussed. 122 C. 292. Cited. 148 C. 682. To justify fixing of identical rates for common and contract carriers, it must appear they are actually in competition and that competition is such as to reduce income of common carriers so that they are unable to maintain adequate and efficient service for public at large. 149 C. 478, 483.

When motor freight tariff of local commodity rates was increased during the term of a 3-month oral contract, plaintiffs, motor common carriers, entitled to recover the new scheduled rate regardless of contract rate. 31 CS 426.