"Weight Bumping" - Falsifying Household Moving Weights to Increase Charges - What ICC Needs to Do

Abstract

About 1 million American households which move each year are not being protected adequately against the practice of "weight bumping" which artificially increases the cost of moving. Weight bumping is the falsifying of weights of household goods shipments to increase transportation charges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1979
Accession Number
AD1118959

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Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Accuracy
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • Household Goods
  • Law
  • Local Governments
  • Money
  • Motivation
  • New York
  • Public Administration
  • Regulations
  • Shipping
  • Slurry Fuels
  • Standards
  • State Governments
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Surface Transportation
  • Trade Associations
  • Training
  • Transportation
  • United States

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