---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 1248.3"
title: "49"
number: "1248.3"
heading: "Carload and L.C.L. traffic defined."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/1248.3"
---

# §1248.3. Carload and L.C.L. traffic defined.

- (a) Commodity codes 01 through 422 and 44 through 462, named in [§ 1248.101](/cfr/49/1248.101.md), shall include only carload traffic. All shipments weighing less than 10,000 pounds shall be included in commodity code 431, “Small packaged freight shipments.”
- (b) A carload for the purpose of this order shall consist of a shipment of not less than 10,000 pounds of one commodity. A mixed carload for the purpose of this order shall be treated as a carload of that commodity which forms the major portion of the shipment in weight. If a single shipment is loaded into more than one car, each car used shall be reported as a carload. If more than one carload shipment is loaded into one car, each shipment shall be reported separately as a carload.

## Notes

### Amendments

[32 FR 20466, Dec. 20, 1967]

### Source

Source: 83 FR 15080, Apr. 9, 2018, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 1321, 11144 and 11145.

### Amendments

[32 FR 20466, Dec. 20, 1967]