Vulcan Freight Lines, Inc. v. K & B Hauling Co.

SHORES, Justice.

The Alabama Public Service Commission (“APSC”) and certain protesting carriers, *249including Vulcan Freight Lines, Inc., appeal from an order of the Jefferson County Circuit Court reversing the APSC’s denial of an application by K & B Hauling Company, Inc. (“K & B”), to institute a new operation as a contract carrier by motor vehicle. We reverse and remand.

K & B, an Alabama corporation, applied to the APSC on May 20, 1991, for authority to institute a new operation as a contract carrier by motor vehicle, in intrastate commerce over irregular routes in the transportation of “heavy…