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B-197046 1 (1980-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiab0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o - ~THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITD STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-197046 DATE: February 19, 1980 MATTER OF: Joseph S. Montalbano - Transportation of Household Good7- Excess Weight DIGEST: 1. Employee may not be relieved of liability for cost of shipping household goods in excess of statutory amount allowable of 11,000 pounds even though weight shown on Government Bill of Lading was significantly in excess of estimates of weight made at different times. Regardless of reasons for shipment of excess weight, law does not permit Government to incur charges. 2. Question whether and to what extent authorized weights have been exceeded is question of fact for administrative determination and will not be questioned in absence of evidence showing it to.be clearly in error. Mr. Joseph S. Montalbano, a civil an employee of the Department of the Air Force requests reconsideration of his 4 o-r alleged indebtedness of $88 excess costs incurred in the shipment of his household goods incident tb a permanent change of station in 1977. The indebtedness was sustained in our Claims Division Settlement Certificate of October 10, 1979. The record shows that Mr. Montalbano's household goods were shipped from Bossier City, Louisiana, to Bangor, Maine, on Government Bill of Lading (GBL) No. M-1,262,313. The household goods shipment was weighed at origin and a net weight of 16,520 pounds was indicated. A re-weigh was apparently requested and made at destination and a net weight of 15,000 pounds was entered on the GBL. The carrier billed and was paid by the Government on the basis of the lower weight of 15,000 pounds. See 49 C.F.R. § 1056.6(d) (1976). Mr. Montalbano has been assessed for the transportation and storage costs applicable to the 4,000 pounds, which exceeded his authorized weight allowance of 11,000 pounds. Mr. Montalbano says that he received earlier estimates of 7,300 to 7,800 pounds. A later estimate was made at his request in January 1979, and an estimate of 8,900 pounds was given. 1 I 111

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