Except as otherwise provided, rates in tariffs governed by this tariff include one pickup and loading and one delivery and unloading or one tender for delivery of a shipment by the carrier, (See Item 570 for Impractical Operations), during business hours, at one site, subject to the following provisions:

 1. PLACEMENT OF VEHICLE FOR LOADING: At the request of the consignor, the carrier will furnish and place a vehicle at the loading site designated by the consignor to pickup a shipment there tendered for transportation.

 2.  PLACEMENT OF VEHICLE FOR UNLOADING: The delivery of a shipment by the carrier to the place of delivery specified on the bill of lading will include the placing of a vehicle at the delivery site designated by the consignee. 

3.  LOADING BY CARRIER: (See Note 2)  Freight tendered for loading shall be so situated by the consignor as to be directly accessible to the vehicle, or it shall be immediately adjacent to a parking space suitable for carrier to place his vehicle for loading.  (See Note 1).  (See Item 566 for handling freight not adjacent to vehicle).  (See Item 566 for handling freight not adjacent to vehicle).  Carrier will furnish only one employee per vehicle for loading whether it be the driver, helper or any other employee except as otherwise provided.

4. UNLOADING BY CARRIER: (See Note 2 and exceptions) Freight will be unloaded at the delivery site immediately adjacent to the delivery vehicle.  (See Note 1).  (See Item 566 for handling freight not adjacent to vehicle).  Carrier will furnish only one employee per vehicle for unloading whether it be the driver, helper or any other employee except as provided in Item 560 (extra labor).

 5. RESTRICTIONS ON LOADING OR UNLOADING BY CARRIER: (See Notes 2 and 5)

   (a) Loading or unloading service does not include assembling, packing, unpacking, dismantling, inspecting,         sorting or segregating freight.

   (b) Except as otherwise provided in Item 750-1, loading or unloading service does not include furnishing by the carrier         of rigging or special loading or unloading equipment such as platform vehicles (other that two wheeled hand         trucks), winches, cranes, jacks, blocks or falls or other special equipment used in hoisting, lowering, handling or         placing freight in position.  When such equipment is used in loading or unloading, the consignor or the consignee,         as the case may be, shall furnish same and the necessary labor to operate such equipment at its expense, and         shall also assume responsibility for safe loading or unloading, except carrier's employee may use hand trucks or         four-wheeled hand carts and hand or electricity operated pallet jacks (non-riding type) when furnished by the         consignor or consignee.

6. LOADING BY CONSIGNOR OR UNLOADING BY CONSIGNEE: (See Note 2) The consignor or consignee may elect to waive the loading or unloading of freight by the carrier as provided in this item by performing as his own expense the loading or unloading of the shipment on or from the carrier's vehicle. 

7. WAIVER OF DELIVERY RECEIPT: When consignor or owner has made written arrangements with the carrier, freight consigned to construction sites (or other places where no representative of the consignee is present or available to receipt for the shipment) will be delivered and unloaded by the carrier and left unattended at the place designated. 

8.  HEAVY OR BULKY FREIGHT – LOADING OR UNLOADING:  (See Notes 3 and 4) When freight (per package or piece) in a single container, or secured to pallets, platforms or lift truck skids, or in any other authorized form of shipment:

   (a)  Weight 110 lbs. or less, the carrier will perform the loading and/or unloading

   (b)  Weights more than 110 lbs. but less than 500 lbs:

1.   The carrier will perform the loading and/or unloading where the consignor and/or consignee provides a dock, a platform or ramp directly accessible to the carrier’s vehicle.  Not applicable when the freight exceeds 8 feet in its greatest dimension or exceeds 4 feet in each its greatest and intermediate dimension – See Paragraph (b) 2 and (d). When the consignor and/or consignee does not provide a dock, platform or ramp, the truck driver, on request, will assist the consignor and/or consignee in loading and/or unloading.

2.   The carrier will perform the loading and/or unloading where the consignor and/or consignee provided a dock, platform or ramp directly accessible to the carrier’s vehicle if such freight

      (i) exceeds 8 feet but does not exceed 22 feet in its greatest dimension and does not exceed 2 feet in its           intermediate dimension, or

      (ii) if it does not exceed 10 feet in its greatest dimension and does not exceed 5 feet in its intermediate dimension           and does not exceed 1 foot in its least dimension.  Where the consignor and/or consignee does not provide a           dock, platform or ramp, the truck driver, on request, will assist the consignor and/or consignee in loading and/or           unloading.

   (c)  Weighs 500 lbs. or more the consignor will perform the loading and the consignee will perform the unloading.  On          request of consignor or consignee, the truck driver will assist the consignor or the consignee in loading or          unloading.

   (d)  Exceeds 8 feet in its greatest dimension or exceeds 4 feet in its greatest and intermediate dimension, the          consignor will perform the loading and the consignee will perform the unloading.  On request of consignor or          consignee, the truck driver will assist the consignor or the consignee in loading or unloading.  The provisions of          this paragraph will not apply to the extent provisions are published in Paragraph (b) 2 of this item.

Note 1 - (a)  Freight shall be deemed to be immediately adjacent to a space suitable for carrier to place his vehicle for loading or unloading if separated therefrom only by an intervening public sidewalk.

(b)     If a parking space suitable for carrier to place his vehicle for loading or unloading is occupied or city ordinance prevents its use, the nearest available parking space may be used.

(c)  When two or more shipments are placed by the shipper as close as practicable to a parking space suitable for carrier to place its vehicle for loading, all of such shipments will be considered as  immediately adjacent thereto even though the shipment or shipments that were closest to such parking space were picked up first by the same or different motor carriers.

(d)  When shipper assigns to two or more carriers designated spaces in its shipping room or loading platform where outgoing freight will be placed by the shipper for pickup by the designated carriers and all of such assigned spaces are as close as practicable to a parking space suitable for carrier to place its vehicle for loading, all such assigned and designated spaces will be considered immediately adjacent to such parking space.

Note 2 -  (a) Loading, by definition in this item, includes stowing and counting of the freight in or on carrier's vehicle.

(b) Unloading, by definition in this item, includes the removal and counting of the freight from the position in which it is transported in or on the carrier's vehicle. 

Note 3 (a)  Loading, by definition in this item, includes stowing of the freight in or on the carrier’s vehicle.

(b)  Unloading, by definition in this item includes the removing of the freight from the position in which it is transported in or on the carrier’s vehicle.      

Note 4  - The provisions of NMFC Item 568 (Heavy or Bulky Freight – Loading or Unloading) will not apply. 

Note 5  -  The provisions of Paragraph 5 will not allow for the opening of packages or unitized shipments, including shrink wrapped or banded freight on pallets, skids or slip sheets.