• A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems, usually called simply a carrier) is a person or...
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    lost or stolen with their Telecom Carrier, and the IMEI would be blacklisted with a central registry. Telecom carriers, depending upon local regulation...
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  • arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods). The carriers may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships...
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  • Look up Carrier or carrier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carrier may refer to: Carrier (album), a 2013 album by The Dodos Carrier (board game),...
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  • ending in X are not common carriers; marks ending in Z are for trailers without flanged wheels. All other marks are of common-carrier railroads. Reporting...
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  • About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United...
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    They were sold through WCCs (Wireline Common Carriers, a.k.a. telephone companies), RCCs (Radio Common Carriers), and two-way radio dealers. Early examples...
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    industrial transport or resort access, and some of these lines offered common carrier service. Outside Colorado, these isolated lines evolved into regional...
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    railroad meant to be permanent, and the first to evolve into trackage of a common carrier after an intervening closure.See the 1826 Granite Railway (pictured)...
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    and a common carrier, or a company in any other phase of aviation, required CAB approval. Inter-carrier agreement All agreements between carriers had to...
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    The Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two...
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  • own discretion, but common carriers must treat all customers equally. Some corporations mix both systems, using common carriers and private carriage...
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  • ending in X are not common carriers; marks ending in Z are for trailers without flanged wheels. All other marks are of common-carrier railroads. XCLX -...
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    of the only companies in the United States to offer common carrier service. At first, common carrier was only limited to a small area around Los Angeles...
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    channels and typically had to wait 30 minutes to place a call. Radio Common Carrier or RCC was a service introduced in the 1960s by independent telephone...
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  • is expected to seek out potential danger and prevent it. " Innkeeper/Common Carrier - very high degree of care - liable for slight negligence" National...
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    concept of a common carrier which was used to describe the role of telephone systems. Net neutrality regulations may be referred to as common carrier regulations...
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    involvement of the United States Postal Service, its officers, or a common carrier in conveying obscene matter, crime-inciting matter, or certain abortion-related...
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    Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name describing...
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    In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a periodic waveform (usually sinusoidal) that carries no information that has...
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  • ending in X are not common carriers; marks ending in Z are for trailers without flanged wheels. All other marks are of common-carrier railroads. QC - Quebec...
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    Cove Springs and Melrose Railroad was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge common carrier and logging railroad that operated between 1881 and 1899. Its core route...
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    of the Communications Act of 1934. Title II imposes common carrier regulation under which carriers offering their services to the general public must provide...
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    operate under one mode. Oftentimes an LTL carrier can be references as a "common" carrier, one who handles common freight above what would normally ship...
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  • ending in X are not common carriers; marks ending in Z are for trailers without flanged wheels. All other marks are of common-carrier railroads. ZBTX -...
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    Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, chartered in 1827, was the nation's first common-carrier railroad. By 1850, an extensive railroad network had taken shape in...
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    privately owned[citation needed]. In 2009 Russia had 128,000 kilometers of common-carrier railway line, of which about half is electrified and carries most of...
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  • not really a common carrier since the subscriber did not determine the programming. Carter Mountain Transmission Corp., a common carrier that already...
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    American truckload motor shipping carrier, part of Knight-Swift. With over 23,000 trucks, it is the largest common carrier in the United States. In 2017,...
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    usually so critical that common carrier telecommunications are insufficiently reliable, while in some remote areas no common carrier is available. Communication...
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