Section 45IAC16-3-7. Routing guide

   ROUTING. (a) Routing to be specified. (1) All tariffs containing joint rates shall specify routing over which such rates apply, stated in such manner that such routes may be definitely ascertained. This must be accomplished, insofar as may be practicable, by providing that the rates in the tariff apply only over the routes specifically shown therein.

  (2) Subparagraph (1) of this paragraph has reference to the names of carriers and transfer points via which such joint rates apply, and does not mean that highway numbers must be shown.

  (b) Routing guide. (1) Instead of showing in rate tariffs the routes over which rates apply, such routes may be published in a separate publication (or publications) filed with this Commission either by a carrier or by an agent, provided specific P.S.C.I. reference be made in the rate tariff to such publication. Such a separate publication may be designated as a "Routing Guide" and may be used only in accordance with the provisions of the following subparagraphs of this paragraph.

  (2) When it is desired to refer to a routing guide or guides for all of the routes, the following notation shall be used:

The rates herein apply only over the routes of the carriers parties to this tariff specified in P.S.C.I. No. TR-_____, supplements thereto or successive issues thereof.

  (3) When it is desired to refer to a routing guide or guides for routes in connection with some but not all of the rates in a tariff, or for routes for account of some but not all of the carriers parties to the tariff, an appropriate notation shall be used. When it is desired to provide that certain rates published in a tariff will not apply over all the routes shown in a routing guide to which the rate tariff is made subject, the rate tariff shall show clearly what routes in the routing guide are not applicable, or are the only routes applicable, as the case may be, in connection with such rates.

  (4) When a tariff which refers to a routing guide also shows routes, it shall show clearly whether the routes named therein are in addition to the routes shown in the routing guide or are the only routes over which the rates making reference to such routes will apply. No one rate may be made subject to more than one routing guide for account of any initial carrier except that interterritorial rates may be made subject to one guide for each of such territories in which such guide is published for that territory alone.

  (c) Form of routing guide. (1) A routing guide shall contain three sections containing (i) an alphabetical list of all of the points from and to which routes are provided, with the name of the carrier serving each point, together with an index number for each of such points; (ii) a table indicating the points from which routes apply, the points to which routes apply (or between which routes apply), and the numbers assigned in the routing guide to routes provided from and to (or between) such points; and (iii) a table containing all such route numbers in numerical order with a full explanation thereof together with names of the interchange (transfer) points.

  (2) The names of the points from, to, or between which routes are provided shall be shown in Section 2, arranged in geographical order by carriers, unless names of points arranged in geographical lists by carriers, are included in Section 1 of the guide.

  (d) Application of routing guide. (1) A routing guide must be concurred in by all carriers over whose lines routes are provided therein. Such guides shall not contain exceptions to the routes provided therein. All exceptions thereto, if any, shall be published in the tariffs making reference thereto.

  (2) Routing guides shall show on their title pages the following notation:

The routes provided herein may be used only in connection with rates made subject thereto by specific P.S.C.I. reference to this guide in the tariffs containing such rates. Its use in connection with any tariff is restricted to the carriers and to the application provided in such tariff.

  (3) If desired, the following tariff provision may be incorporated under the heading "Routing Instructions" in rate tariffs:

The rates named in this tariff will apply only over the routes and through transfer points authorized herein except that when in the case of pronounced traffic congestion (not an embargo), detours or other similar emergency, or through carriers' error, carriers forward shipments by other transfer points of the same carriers or over the lines of other carriers parties to the tariff, the rate specified in this tariff (but not higher than the rate applicable over the actual route of movement) will be applied.

  NOTE: If desired, the words "or over the lines of other carriers parties to the tariff" may be omitted from the emergency routing clause. (Department of State Revenue; No. 33034: Common Carrier Freight Tariffs and Classifications PT A,Rule 5; filed Feb 15, 1973, 3:00 pm: Rules and Regs. 1974, p. 471) NOTE: Transferred from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (170 IAC 2-3-7) to the Department of State Revenue (45 IAC 16-3-7) by P.L.72-1988, SECTION 12, effective July 1, 1988.