---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 14912"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "14912"
heading: "Weight-bumping in household goods transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/14912"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 149 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §14912. Weight-bumping in household goods transportation

- (a) **Weight-Bumping Defined.—** For the purposes of this section, “weight-bumping” means the knowing and willful making or securing of a fraudulent weight on a shipment of [household goods](/usc/49/13102.md?p=10) which is subject to jurisdiction under subchapter I or III of chapter 135.
- (b) **Penalty.—** Whoever has been found to have committed weight-bumping shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 918.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11917 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.