Ferrari v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

Appellant has appealed from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission refusing a permanent certificate of public convenience to transport, as a common carrier by motor vehicle, heavy machinery and equipment, and terminating a temporary authority which had been granted for that purpose.

Appellant had been engaged as a road contractor at Latrobe, Westmoreland County, for some time prior to 1941. In that year he purchased his own heavy hauling equipment for use in his business. Thereafter, in 1941, appellant applied to the commission for a certificate…