---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 1090.1"
title: "49"
number: "1090.1"
heading: "Definition of TOFC/COFC service."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/1090.1"
---

# §1090.1. Definition of TOFC/COFC service.

- (a) Rail trailer-on-flatcar/container-on-flatcar (TOFC/COFC) service means the transportation by rail, in interstate or foreign commerce, of—
  - (1) Any freight-laden highway truck, trailer, or semitrailer,
  - (2) The freight-laden container portion of any highway truck, trailer, or semitrailer having a demountable chassis,
  - (3) Any freight-laden multimodal vehicle designed to operate both as a highway truck, trailer, or semitrailer and as a rail car,
  - (4) Any freight-laden intermodal container comparable in dimensions to a highway truck, trailer, or semitrailer and designed to be transported by more than one mode of transportation, or
  - (5) Any of the foregoing types of equipment when empty and being transported incidental to its previous or subsequent use in TOFC/COFC service.
- (b) Highway TOFC/COFC service means the highway transportation, in interstate or foreign commerce, of any of the types of equipment listed in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section as part of a continuous intermodal movement that includes rail TOFC/COFC service, and during which the trailer or container is not unloaded.

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 23660, June 24, 1987]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 1321.

### Amendments

[52 FR 23660, June 24, 1987]