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FILE: B-190624
OATE: August 29. lqTS
MATTER OF: Trans Country Van Lines, Inc.
DIGEST:
1. Provisions in carrier's individual section 22 Tender 150
incorporating-by reference classification rules and er
captions, ad accessorial charse in group Tender 1-W,
do not disclose intenlZon to combine eicess-distance,
rate factor i. Tender L-W for purpose of computing line-
haul rates on diotances in ex.ess of 3,000 miles.
2. Carrier's individual Tender 150 incorporating some rules
from Tender 1- shows clear intention to deny ope:'ation
of other rules omitted from incorporation.
3. Neither carriers not shippers can be permitted to urge
for their own purposes a atrained and unnatural tariff
construction.
4. In settlement by GSA, no amounts should
stituting upward revision ov.r original
more than 3 years previously, b-188647,
be allowed con-
bill paid carrier
December 28, 977.
Trans Country Van Lines, Inc. (Trans Country), in a letter
dated October 31, 1977, requents review by the Comptroller General
of the United States of the General Services Administition's
(GSA) action in disllloiing two of its claims for a total of
$3,902.24. See section 201(3) of the General Accounting Office
Act of 1974, 49 U.S.C. 66(b) (Supp. V, 1975). GSA disall6wed
the claims on the basis of a settlement certificate and by a
letter to Trans Country sustaining'its oilginal disallowance.
Under regulations implementira section 201(3) of the Act, the
disallowance of a claim constitutes a reviewable settlement
action [4 C.F.R. 53.1(b)(2) and 53.2 (1977)]; Trans Country's
letter complies with :he criteria for requests-for review of
that action. 4 C.F.R. 53.3 (1977).
The record shows that two shipments are involved. For
transportation of a shipment of elettrical equipment frnm
Sunnyvale, California, to Plattaburg Air Force Base, New York,
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