Alabama Public Service Commission v. Lane Trucking, Inc.

BEATTY, Justice.

Appeal by the Alabama Public Service Commission and five protesting carriers from a circuit court order which reversed a decision of the Commission. We reverse and remand.

The case began with an application filed with the Commission by Lane Trucking, Inc. (Lane) to extend its existing operations as a common carrier. At that time Lane already had authority to transport a number of commodities, road materials and aggregate, between points south of a line beginning at the point at which U. S. Highway 11 crosses the Alabama-Mississippi boundary line, continuing along that highway…