Churchill Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States

Appellant Churchill Truck Lines, Inc., has petitioned this court to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission granting motor carrier Main Line Hauling Co., Inc.’s application for operating authority over a different route. We deny the petition and enforce the order of the ICC.

Main Line has authority to haul general commodities from Memphis, Tennessee to Parkway Village, Missouri — the interline location — and then to interline with another carrier which hauls the goods on to Kansas City, Missouri. Because of bridge closings by the state of Missouri on Main Line’s *64route between…