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B-230873 1 (1988-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnhc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washigton, D.C. 20648 Decision Yowell Transportation Services, Inc. -- Combined Matterof- Line-Haul and Exclusive-Use-Of-Vehicle Charges File: B-230873 Date: November 21, 1988 DIGEST Where a carrier's tender supplement that was in effect when a particular shipment moved provided that shipments accorded exclusive-use-of-vehicle service will be rated under an identified rate table, the intent of the supplement was to combine rate factors for both line-haul and exclusive-use services into one charge. This intent is made clear by the fact that a subsequent supplement of the same tender provided specifically that such shipments will be rated at an additional charge. Yowell Transportation Services, Inc., B-225014, Sept. 30, 1987, distinguished. DECISION Yowell Transportation Services, Inc., requests review of action taken by the General Services Administration (GSA). GSA disallowed Yowell's supplemental bill for additional exclusive-use-of-vehicle charges. We sustain GSA's action. BACKGROUND This case raises the question of whether a separate additional charge for exclusive-use-of-vehicle service was app able to the transportation of a government shipment. Y. received the shipment, weighing 1,945 pounds, on Fe y 13, 1985.1/ The charges of $590 that Yowell aally billed and collected were computed by applying a $W per 100-pound rate to a minimum (constructive) weight of 10,000 pounds. In January 1988, nearly 3 years later, Yowell presented a supplemental bill for an additional l/ The shipment was tendered to Yowell at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Government Bill of Lading S-5559674, for delivery to West Deptford, New Jersey, a distance of 162 miles. 045/ 13 73Z3

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