---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 13710"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "13710"
heading: "Additional billing and collecting practices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/13710"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 137 — Rates and Through Routes"
---

# §13710. Additional billing and collecting practices

- (a) **Miscellaneous Provisions.—**
  - (1) **Information relating to basis of rate.—** A [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) of property (other than a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) in [noncontiguous domestic trade](/usc/49/13102.md?p=17)) shall provide to the shipper, on request of the shipper, a written or electronic copy of the [rate](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7), classification, rules, and practices, upon which any [rate](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7) applicable to its shipment or agreed to between the shipper and [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) is based.
  - (2) **Reasonableness of rates; collecting additional charges.—** When the applicability or reasonableness of the [rates](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7) and related provisions billed by a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) is challenged by the [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) paying the freight charges, the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) shall determine whether such [rates](/usc/49/10102.md?p=7) and provisions are reasonable under [section 13701](/usc/49/13701.md) or applicable based on the record before it.
  - (3) **Billing disputes.—**
    - (A) **Initiated by motor carriers.—** In those cases where a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) (other than a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) of [household goods](/usc/49/13102.md?p=10) or in [noncontiguous domestic trade](/usc/49/13102.md?p=17)) seeks to collect charges in addition to those billed and collected which are contested by the payor, the [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) may request that the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) determine whether any additional charges over those billed and collected must be paid. A [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) must issue any bill for charges in addition to those originally billed within 180 days of the receipt of the original bill in order to have the right to collect such charges.
    - (B) **Initiated by shippers.—** If a shipper seeks to contest the charges originally billed or additional charges subsequently billed, the shipper may request that the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) determine whether the charges billed must be paid. A shipper must contest the original bill or subsequent bill within 180 days of receipt of the bill in order to have the right to contest such charges.
  - (4) **Voiding of certain tariffs.—** Any tariff on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission on August 26, 1994, and not required to be filed after that date is null and void beginning on that date. Any tariff on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission on January 1, 1996, and not required to be filed after that date is null and void beginning on that date.
- (b) **Resolution of Disputes Over Status of Common Carrier or Contract Carrier.—** If a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) (other than a [motor carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=14) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) of [household goods](/usc/49/13102.md?p=10)) that was subject to jurisdiction under subchapter II of [chapter 105](/usc/49/chstIV/ptA/ch105.md), as in effect on December 31, 1995, and that had authority to provide [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) as both a motor common [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) and a motor contract [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) and a dispute arises as to whether certain [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) that was provided prior to January 1, 1996, was provided in its common [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) or contract [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) capacity and the parties are not able to resolve the dispute consensually, the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) shall resolve the dispute.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 876; amended Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(30), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3391.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

### Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(30)(A)

This sets out the effective date of 49:13710.

### Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(30)(B)

This amends 49:13710(b) by setting out the effective date for 49:13710 and for clarity and consistency.

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subchapter II of chapter 105, referred to in subsec. (b), was omitted in the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 804, effective Jan. 1, 1996.

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in sections 10762 and 11101 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

### Amendments

1996—Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(30)(A), substituted “January 1, 1996,” for “the effective date of this section”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(30)(B), substituted “December 31, 1995” for “the day before the effective date of this section” and “January 1, 1996,” for “the effective date of this section”.

### 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.

### Abolition of Interstate Commerce Commission

Interstate Commerce Commission abolished by section 101 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.