'Weight Bumping'--Falsifying Household Moving Weights To Increase Charges--What ICC Needs To Do
CED-79-75
Published: May 01, 1979. Publicly Released: May 01, 1979.
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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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