---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 13713"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "13713"
heading: "Food and grocery transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/13713"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 137 — Rates and Through Routes"
---

# §13713. Food and grocery transportation

- (a) **Certain Compensation Prohibited.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a seller of food and grocery products using a uniform zone delivered pricing system to compensate a customer who picks up purchased food and grocery products at the shipping point of the seller if such compensation is available to all customers of the seller on a nondiscriminatory basis and does not exceed the actual cost to the seller of delivery to such customer.
- (b) **Sense of Congress.—** It is the sense of the Congress that any savings accruing to a customer by reason of compensation permitted by [subsection (a)](#a) of this section should be passed on to the ultimate consumer.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 879.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 10732 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.