Texas Industrial Traffic League v. Railroad Commission

This is an appeal from an administrative order setting certain intrastate freight carrier rates. Common Carrier Motor Freight Association, Inc., applied to the Railroad Commission for an across-the-board rate increase for an entire class of carriers. The Texas Industrial Traffic League, the National Small Shipments Traffic Conference, and the Drug and Toilet Preparation Traffic Conference (“Contestants”) opposed the application before the Commission. After an extensive administrative hearing, the Commission in 1980 granted the increase. Contestants appealed to the District Court of Travis…