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B-197658 1 (1980-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobading0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oI THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIOi = OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 4 UN~IT.O z 6 FILE: B-197658 DATE: August 25, 1980 MATTER OF: Yellow Freight System, Inc. DIGEST: 1. One lot of freight tendered at one time from one consignor at one place to one consignee at one place constitutes one shipment entitled to truckload rate although carrier transported freight on different days and issued multiple bills of lading. 2. Substance of transportation transaction and not incidental forms of billing govern character of transportation service. 52 Comp. Gen. 575 (1973) Yellow Freight System, Inc. (Yellow), requests review by~the Comptroller General, pursuant to 4 C.F.R. Part 53 (1979) of deduction action taken by the General Services Administration (GSA). The record shows that 59 bundles of steel posts, weighing a total of 107,129 pounds, were tendered by Bock Industries, Inc., to Yellow and were transported by Yellow from Elkhart, Indiana, to Federal Prison Industries, Inc., Lompoc, California. Twenty-two bundlesweighing 40,253 pounds, were transported under carrier's bill of lading 4141, dated December 10, 1976. Another 22 bundles, of the same weight, were transported under carrier's bill of lading 4142, December 13, 1976. And 15 bundles, weigh- ing 26,623 pounds, were transported under carrier's bill of lading 4148, dated December 15, 1976. The three bills of lading were annotated for conversion to a Government bill of lading (GBL) at destination and were so converted to the single GBL, K-3341434. For this service Yellow originally billed and was paid by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., $7,820.42. On audit of the payment voucher, GSA determined that the charges should be $6,170.63. This was based on the class 37-1/2 truckload rate of $5.76 per hundred pounds subject to a minimum weight of 36,000 pounds on the total weight 113147

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