- proportional rate
- One carrier's part of a through rate over the lines of two or more carriers. Hocking Valley R. Co. v Lackawanna Coal & Lumber Co. (CA4 W Va) 224 F 930. See pro rata freight charge.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
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