Sec. 18. (a) Notwithstanding IC 24-1-2-1 and in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 14303, common carriers may:

(1) establish by agreement through routes and joint rates, charges, and classifications with other common carriers and with common carriers by railroads, or by water, and every common carrier shall provide safe and adequate service, equipment, and facilities for the transportation of passengers or household goods in intrastate and interstate commerce; and

(2) establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable rates, fares, charges, and classifications, and just and reasonable regulations and practices relating to rates, fares, charges, and classifications, and to the issuance, form, and substance of tickets, receipts, bills of lading, the carrying of baggage, and all other matters relating to or connected with the transportation of passengers or household goods in both intrastate and interstate commerce, and in case of joint rates and charges, to establish just, reasonable, and equitable division of joint rates and charges between the carriers participating in the joint rates and charges.

(b) It is unjust discrimination and unlawful for any common carrier by motor vehicle to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in connection with the transportation of any persons or household goods, or to subject any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice, delay, or disadvantage in any respect.

(c) Every common carrier by motor vehicle that fails or refuses to receive and transport without unreasonable delay or discrimination the passengers or household goods tendered for transportation and deliver without unreasonable delay or discrimination those passengers or household goods at destination or to the transfer point of the route of any connecting common carrier by motor vehicle or railroad is guilty of unjust discrimination.

(d) It is unjust discrimination for any common carrier to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or household goods for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction, the shorter distance being included in the longer.

As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.14; P.L.7-2015, SEC.18.