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Show Motor Carriers Warned Must Comply With Law A w .r-.g tr...; '.ho r: ..- I eonr-j.lj eonr-j.lj the KevU:-.d Uws govern ing i-o-.,,r carriers of inter-Mate c-.rrrrrr-rce vau given Kcal truckers truck-ers U-t week by Lelland M. CVwun, d.stnct rate agent for the l ira d-::-ict which comprises Montana, Mon-tana, 1 iah.0. and L'tah. Mr. Cowan declared that very few truckers ivalied that if tho carried any freight that had been shipped out of the state, whether th-y brought it in or other carriers, car-riers, they came under the Federal Fed-eral law. He stated that his department de-partment sukxI ready to cooper-ale cooper-ale at any time that they could and urged that truckers contact his office if there were any quos- uon in their minds in regard to 1 ,w The location of the Salt Lake Oty ott.ee .s: 420 Continental Conti-nental Hank building. Salt Lake ''Attention was direct! by him ,o certain lurts ot the law that are overlooked by most earner. No 17 of the act states. tht term 'private carrier of prvporty bv motor vehicle' means any person per-son no, included in the ternis common carrier by motor vehicle or -contract carrier by motor vehicle' ve-hicle' who or which transport in mterstate or foreign commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner lessee, rent or bailment, or in furtherance further-ance of anv commercial enterprise". enter-prise". Ho stated that this law also covered those carrying livestock live-stock or agricultural commodities. I in urging that carriers comply with the law he pointed out that the penalties for violation were verv sever and while they would ! he "willing to cooperate with the carrier, they would insist that tv. law be lived up to. The ilw e only covers the carrier but ah01 "any person, whether carrier o,-per, o,-per, consignee or broker, or ' officers, employee, agent, or resentative thereof, who knowingly offer, grant, or giVf solicit, accept, or receive anv bate, concession, or diserinuiJ tion in violation of anv t,rm. 'a' of the law". " ' niil- |