Trans-Western Express, Ltd. v. Public Utilities Commission

Trans-Western Express, Ltd. (TWX) appeals the decision of the district court which upheld the ruling of the Public Utilities Commission of Colorado (PUC).1 The PUC denied TWX’s application for extension of its common-carrier authority. TWX asserts that the PUC applied the wrong standard of “public need” by finding that the testimony of a single shipper does not establish the requisite public need to amend a common-carrier’s certificate of public convenience and necessity. TWX also claims that the decision of the PUC was arbitrary and capricious, internally and externally inconsistent, and *352with…