AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. v. LARSON

Civ. A. No. 80-899.

515 F.Supp. 1327 (1981)

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC., Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, Maryland Motor Truck Association, Coastal Tank Lines, Inc., CRST, Inc., Smith Transfer Corp., Ryder Truck Lines, Inc., and Preston Trucking Corp., Plaintiffs, v. Thomas D. LARSON, Secretary of the Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al., Defendants, v. Steamship Operators Intermodal Committee, Plaintiff-Intervenor.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

June 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur R. Littleton, Thomas A. Schneider, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Eugene Pepinsky, Harrisburg, Pa., and Robert E. Konchar, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, James A. Romanelli, John F. Goryl, Harrisburg, Pa., for CRST, Inc.

Fred Speaker, Lewis S. Kunkel, Jr., Robert J. Attaway, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Harrisburg, Pa., Seymour H. Kligler and Mel P. Barkan, New York City, for Steamship Operators Intermodal Committee.

John L. Heaton, Asst. Atty. Gen. Chief Counsel, Harrisburg, Pa., for Daniel F. Dunn.

Michael Deckman, Harrisburg, Pa., for Thomas Larson.

Edward A. Woolley, New York City, for Institute of International Container, Lessor.


OPINION AND ORDER

HERMAN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs initiated this action to challenge the constitutionality of section 4703(a)(2) of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 4703(a)(2), as amended, Act of June 18, 1980, No. 68, 1980 Pennsylvania Legislative Service 191, which requires all motor carrier vehicles1 operating on the highways of Pennsylvania to display "a currently...

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