AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS v. I. C. C.

Nos. 81-4046, 81-4080.

656 F.2d 1115 (1981)

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. and Saia Motor Freight Lines, Inc., Petitioners, v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF the PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, et al., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

September 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth E. Siegel, Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

Craig M. Keats, Atty., ICC, Kenneth P. Kolson, John J. Powers, III, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Wiley G. Lastrapes, Jr., New Orleans, La., John Guandolo, Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Cyrus C. Guidry, Port Counsel, New Orleans, La., for Bd. of Comm. Port of New Orleans.

Stanley B. Hebert, Oakland, Cal., B. Carlton Bailey, Jr., Sea-Land Ind. Inc., Edison, N. J., for Port of Oakland.

R. Frederic Fisher, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Westbound Conference.

Raymond J. Salassi, Jr., New Orleans, La., Albert B. Russ, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for Seaboard Coast Line R.R., et al.

Wiley Lastrapes, New Orleans, La., John Guandolo, John D. Quinn, John T. Downing, Washington, D.C., for Sea-Land Service, Inc., et al.

K. Edward Wolcott, Atlanta, Ga., for Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Raymond J. Salassi, Jr., New Orleans, La., Louis P. Warchot, II, San Francisco, Cal., for Southern Pacific Transportation Co.

Robert A. Peavy, Howard T. Weir, Washington, D.C., for U. S. Flag Far East Discussion Agreement.

Neal M. Mayer, Washington, D.C., for Seapack Container Service, S. A.

Raymond J. Salassi, Jr., New Orleans, La., Frederick G. Pfrommer, San Francisco, Cal., Louis P. Warchot, II, San Francisco, Cal., Albert B. Russ, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., et al.

John A. Daily, Philadelphia, Pa., for Consolidated Rail Corp.

Alan P. Sherbrooke, Thomas M. Kilbane, Jr., Seattle, Wash., Brockman Adams, Washington, D.C., for Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc.

Stanley O. Sher, Anthony J. Ciccone, Jr., John Attanasio, Washington, D.C., for Australia-Eastern U.A.A. Shipping Conference, et al.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and GEE and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Before us today are challenges to a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission ("ICC" or "Commission") exempting from regulation rail and truck transportation provided by rail carriers in connection with trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC) and container-on-flatcar (COFC) service. 46 Fed.Reg. 14,348 (1981). TOFC and COFC services involve intermodal operations in which the various goods shipped are not handled individually. Rather, they are loaded into...

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