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B-181560 1 (1975-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcvk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (I V. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 (p ~ FILE: CATE: -OCT 1 1975 B-181560 MATTER OF: DIGEST: Ultra Special Express Arrival of shipping documents in advance of actual unloading is irrelevant to issue whether United States is liable for vehicle detention charges for unloading performed in excess of two hours where motor carrier, with knowledge of fact that vehicles are scheduled for unloading at an ocean terminal by Military.Traffic Management Command, offers to.perform transportation services which include use of its vehicles at no extra charge for two hours for unloading. During 1975, Ultra Special Express (Ultra) presented several hundred supplemental bills or claims totaling about $875,000 for additional transportation charges consisting of detention charges allegedly incurred at the lilitary Ocean Terminal, Bayonne, 1--% Jersey (MOTLY) on over 1,700 shipmenLs moving on Government bills of lading (GEL). The transportation was perforned and Ultra collected its line-haul transportation charges on the 1,700 ship- ments over a three-year period, dating back to as early as 1971. The written record submitted by the claimant consists of two papers attached to each supplemental bill or claim. They are a form entitled Support for Undercharges, containing information on each truckload of cargo, and a copy of an unidentified form containing information whose relevance is not explained. Our Transportation and Claims Division (TCD) assembled the payment record on three of these claims and submitted them to us. Claim No. TK-975143 covering GBL No. E-8690339 is illustrative. The GBL shows that Ultra transported a shipment of miscellaneous cargo from Davisville, Rhode Island, to MOTBY. The original carrier bill No. 244 for line-haul charges of $141 and for acces- sorial charges of $9.55 (total of $150.55), was paid on March 30, 1972. A claim by supplemental bill No. 244A for additional line-haul charges of $34 was presented on February 19, 1974, and PUBLISHED DECISIONI 55 Comp. Gen ........ DECISION (. G; 0

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