Moving: Your Rights & Responsibilities

Prepared by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA)
Furnished by your Mover

Tariff Inspection and Incorporation Notice

Federal law requires that movers advise shippers that they may inspect the tariffs that govern your shipment. Carriers tariffs, by this reference, are made a part of the contract of carriage (bill of lading) between you and the carrier and may be inspected at carriers facility, or, on request, carrier will furnish a copy of any tariff provision containing carriers rates, rules or charges governing your shipment, the terms of which cannot be varied.

Incorporated tariff provisions include but are not limited to those: (1.) establishing limitation of carriers liability, the principal features of which are described in the valuation declaration section of the bill of lading; (2.) setting the time periods for filing claims, the principal features of which are described in Section 6 of the bill of lading; and, (3.) reserving the carriers right to assess additional charges for additional services performed and, on non-binding estimates, to base charges upon the exact weight of the goods transported.