Regular Common Carrier Conference of American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

Opinion for the court filed by MacKINNON, Circuit Judge.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

In April of 1973, Kroblin Refrigerated Xpress, Inc. of Waterloo, Iowa, and Schanno Transportation, Inc. of West St. Paul, Minnesota, petitioned the ICC for certificates of public convenience and necessity for carriage over “irregular routes of general commodities, with the usual exceptions . (1) from Boston, Mass., Newark, N.J., New York, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Pa., to Kansas City, Mo., Dallas and Houston, Tex., and New Orleans, La.; and (2) from Springfield, Mass., to Kansas City, Mo., and Dallas and Houston,…