§10705 Authority: through routes, joint classifications, rates, and divisions prescribed by Board

Summary

The Board can set through routes, joint classifications, joint rates, how joint rates are split, and the rules for running those routes for rail carriers it controls. It must do this when it thinks it is in the public interest. It can also leave out most of a carrier’s own track (and any connecting track run with it) from a through route that lies only between the route’s end points if one of three things is true: sections 10741, 10742, or 11102 require it; including those lines would make the route unreasonably long compared with a workable alternative; or the Board finds the shorter route needed to give adequate, more efficient, or cheaper service. If the split of a joint rate agreed to by carriers under section 10703 would violate section 10701, the Board must set the split itself. If a Board-ordered split is later found to violate section 10701, the Board may pick a reasonable split and order changes that can be made retroactive to the date the complaint was filed, the date an investigation order was made, or a later date the Board thinks is fair.