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B-182616 1 (1976-02-20)

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                                                 FEB  2 0 1976



      B-182616

               Ultra Special Express


          1.  Special weekend or holiday charges on over-
          dimensional shipments moving under special
          permits are proper only when carrier has valid
          highway permit for the day preceding the
          Saturday, Sunday or holiday.  See 54 Comp. Gen.
          308 (1974).

          2.  In absence of specific request by shipper,
          and in accordance with tariff provision effec-
          tive on date of ship-ment, hourly chairges for
          escort vehicle services on overdimensional ship-
          vents during other than normal operating hours
          not allowable.

          3.  In absence of request by shipper, and in
          accordance with tariff provision effective on
          date of shipment, charges for a route survey
          on overdimensional shipments not allowable.

     Ultra Special Express (Ultra) requests review of the action
of our forme-r Transportation and Claims Division (TCD) in
collecting by dedhuction an overcharge of $5,234.40 on an over-
dimensional shipr.ent of helicopters transported from the 1aval
Supply Center, Norfolk, Virginia, to Quonset Point, Rhode
Island, on Government bill of lading No. F-2849121, dated
December 20, 1971.  Ultra contends that the overcharge is
$1,012.30, and has filed a claim for the balance collected,
$4,222.10.

     The transportation audit function of the General Accounting
Office's Transportation and Claims Division recently was trans-
ferred to the General Services Administration  (GSA) under the
provisions of the General Accounting Office Act of 1974, 88
Stat. 1959, approved January 2, 1975.  We today have  transferred
Ultra's claim to GSA with the suggestion that its action on  the
claim conforn to the views expressed herein.

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