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Are you sure you're a "driver"? DRIVER. One employed... “The activity licensed by state DMVs and in connection with which individuals must submit
personal information to the DMV - the operation of motor vehicles - is itself
integrally related to interstate commerce”. Title18, UNITED STATES CODE Sec. 31 When used
in this chapter the term - ''Motor
vehicle'' means every description of carriage or other contrivance propelled or
drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in
the transportation of passengers, passengers and property, or property or
cargo; Motor vehicle - Laws of Florida c. 14764 (1931) The term
"motor vehicle" shall include all vehicles or machines propelled by
any power other than muscular used upon the public highways (but not over fixed
rails) for the transportation of persons or property for compensation either as
common carriers, private contract carriers or for hire carriers. Traffic - Webster's Unified
Dictionary and Encyclopedia, International Illustrated Edition (1960) 1. Business or trade, commerce. 2.
Transportation. 3. The movement of vehicles on street or highway, as, the traffic
is very heavy today. Traffic - Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1856) Commerce, trade,
sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and the like. Traffic - Black's Law Dictionary 3rd Commerce; trade;
sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money, and the like. The passing of goods or commodities from
one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money. Senior v. Ratterman, 44 Ohio St. 673, 11 N.E. 321; People v. Horan,
293 Ill. 314, 127 N.E. 673, 674; People v. Dunford,
207 N.Y. 17, 100 N.E. 433, 434; Fine v. Morgan, 74 Fla. 417, 77 So. 533, 538; Bruno v. Traffic - Black's Law Dictionary 4th Commerce; trade;
sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money, and the like. The passing of goods or commodities from
one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money. Senior
v. Ratterman, Traffic -Black's Law Dictionary 6th Commerce; trade;
sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money, and the like. The passing or exchange of goods or
commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods and money.
The subjects of transportation on a route, as persons or
goods; the passing to and fro of persons, animals, vegetables, or vessels,
along a route of transportation, as along a street, highway, etc. Transportation - Webster's Unified Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
International Illustrated Edition (1960) 1. The act or business of moving
passengers and goods. 2. The means of conveyance used. 3. Banishment, esp. of
convicts to a penal colony. Transportation - Black's Law Dictionary 3rd The removal of
goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. See Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22 Wall. 133, 22 L.Ed. 827;
Interstate Commerce Com'n v. Brimson,
154 Transportation - Black's Law Dictionary 4th The removal of
goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22
Wall. 133, 22 L.Ed.
827; Interstate Commerce Com'n v. Brimson, 14 S.Ct. 1125, 154 Transportation - Black's 6th The movement of
goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. Transportation - 49 U.S.C. ¤ 5102(12) "transports"
or "transportation" means the movement of property and loading,
unloading, or storage incidental to the movement. Transportation - Words and Phrases See State
v. Western Trans Co. (1950, Iowa) 43 N.W.2d 739
[The judge, after giving his conclusion, goes
on to give examples of "transportation" - all involving the movement
of persons or goods for hire.] "Prior to November 2, 1926, the Statutes of 1925
imposed a license tax ... on those operating motor vehicles over the public
highways for hire, ... On November 2, 1926, the People adopted an amendment to
article XIII, section 15, of the Constitution, changing the tax rate ... on
carriage of passengers and ... on transportation of property, and relieving the
carrier of municipal licenses and taxes. ... The amendment contained the
provision that 'Such taxes shall be in lieu of all other taxes and licenses'
upon the property of such companies." ""It is obvious that those who operate motor
vehicles for the transportation of persons or property for hire enjoy a
different and more extensive use of the public highways. * * * Such
extraordinary use constitutes a natural distinction and a full justification
for their separate classification and for relieving from the burden of the
license tax those who merely employ the public highways for the transportation
of their own property or employees." "... [T]he exemptions provided for in section 1 of the
Motor Vehicle Transportation License Act of 1925 (Stats. 1925, p. 833) in favor
of those who solely transport their own property or employees, or both, and of
those who transport no persons or property for hire or compensation, by motor
vehicle, have been determined in the Bacon Service Corporation case to be
lawful exemptions. |