---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 13708"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "13708"
heading: "Billing and collecting practices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/13708"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 137 — Rates and Through Routes"
---

# §13708. Billing and collecting practices

- (a) **Disclosure.—** A [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) subject to jurisdiction under subchapter I of [chapter 135](/usc/49/chstIV/ptB/ch135.md) shall disclose, when a document is presented or electronically transmitted for payment to the [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) responsible directly to the [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) for payment or agent of such responsible [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), the actual [rates](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7), charges, or allowances for any [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) service and shall also disclose, at such time, whether and to whom any allowance or reduction in charges is made.
- (b) **False or Misleading Information.—** No [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) may cause a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) to present false or misleading information on a document about the actual [rate](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7), charge, or allowance to any party to the transaction.
- (c) **Allowances for Services.—** When the actual [rate](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7), charge, or allowance is dependent upon the performance of a service by a party to the [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) arrangement, such as tendering a volume of freight over a stated period of time, the [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) shall indicate in any document presented for payment to the [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) responsible directly to the [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) that a reduction, allowance, or other adjustment may apply.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 873.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 10767 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.