Laxity of inspection in case of special shippers, enabling them to get low rates on mixed goods in carloads billed at the rate appropriate to the lowest product in the mass.
Intentional mistakes in printing tariffs, a few copies being run off for favored shippers, after which the mistakes are discovered and corrected for the ordinary shipper and the Interstate Commission.
Fictitious entries in the “prepaid” column of the freight bill.
Instructions to agents to deduct a certain percentage from the face of the bill when collecting for specified shippers.
Payment of fictitious claims for damage, delay, or overcharge.
Making a low joint rate (or single rate either) on a given commodity when shipped for a purpose confined to a few shippers, while other shippers using the same commodity for other purposes have to pay much higher rates.
False billing,—
false weight—underbilling,
false number—billing a larger number of packages than are sent and claiming pay for the difference,
false description—putting goods in a lower class than the one to which they belong,