PURPOSE: This rule sets forth when and how motor carriers of passengers may provide service at joint through rates with other motor carriers, and through service between points on their own separate routes.

1. (1) Every motor carrier, to the extent it is authorized by this division to transport passengers or household goods between points in 4 CSR 265-10

Missouri over regular routes, may establish joint service at joint through rates between any point in Missouri on its own regular route where service is authorized by its own certificate or permit, and any other point in Missouri on the regular route of another motor carrier of passengers or household goods where service is authorized by that carrier’s certificate or permit, subject to the following requirements:

1. (A) In providing this joint or interline service, each carrier shall transport passengers or household goods only upon its owned or leased vehicles, over its own authorized regular routes and between authorized points on those routes, and shall actually interchange passengers or household goods with the other carrier at an authorized point common to both carriers’ certificates or permits. If either participating carrier is a regular route contract carrier, then this interline service shall be limited to transportation for the contracting parties identified in that contract carrier’s permit;
2. (B) No carrier shall participate in joint or interline service until it has complied with the applicable tariff requirements of 4 CSR 265- 6.010 with reference to passenger carriers, or 4 CSR 265-6.020 with reference to household goods carriers; and
3. (C) Motor carriers of passengers or household goods shall not provide joint or interline service over irregular routes, nor over any combination of regular routes and irregular routes.

1. (2) A motor carrier of passengers or household goods shall not consolidate or tack together separate routes within its own certificate or permit, to provide through service between points on its separate routes, unless the division has expressly authorized the carrier to perform that consolidation, tacking or through service in its certificate or permit. The division may authorize the consolidation, tacking or through service by a carrier subject to the following limitations:

   1. (A) No carrier who is authorized by the division to perform this consolidation, tacking or through service between separate routes shall begin providing this through service until it has complied with the applicable tariff requirements of 4 CSR 265-6.010 with reference to passenger carriers, or 4 CSR 265-6.020 with reference to household goods carriers; and

   2. (B) The division may authorize a motor carrier of passengers or household goods to consolidate, tack together or provide through service between points on regular routes only. The following incompatible authorities shall not be consolidated or tacked together within a carrier’s certificate or permit:

      1. 1. Two (2) or more irregular routes; or
      2. 2. One (1) or more regular routes and

one (1) or more irregular routes. J3

AUTHORITY: section 622.027, RSMo 1994.* Original rule filed Nov. 4, 1992, effective July 8, 1993. Emergency amendment filed Dec. 1, 1994, terminated Dec. 19, 1994. Emergency amendment filed Dec. 20, 1994, effective Jan. 1, 1995, expired April 30, 1995. Emergency amendment filed April 20, 1995, effective May 1, 1995, expired Aug. 28, 1995. Emergency amendment filed Aug. 18, 1995, effective Aug. 29, 1995, expired Feb. 24, 1996. Amended: Filed Aug. 3, 1995, effective Feb. 25, 1996. *Original authority 1985, amended 1993, 1995.