Baggett Transportation Co., and Coast Counties Express, Inc. v. The United States

DANIEL M. FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The sole question in this appeal is whether the United States requested two motor carriers to provide exclusive use of the containers used to transport government property, the effect of such request being that the carriers would be entitled to increased shipping charges. The United States Claims Court held that the United States had not requested exclusive use, and dismissed the carriers’ suit for the additional charges. We affirm.

I

A. During the latter half of 1986, Bag-gett Transportation Co. (Baggett) and Coast Counties Express, Inc. (Coast)…