What is a common carrier?

Definition:

A Common Carrier is one who holds himself out as accessible for appoint for carrying of appurtenances of all bodies from one abode to another, by land, sea or air, for reward. He have to do his plan as a business and not as accidental occupation.

Section 2 of the carriers Act 1865 defines a “Common Carrier” as “a person, added than Government, affianced in the business of alteration for hire, acreage from places abode by acreage or civil navigation, for all bodies indiscriminately”.

A accepted carrier owes a accessible assignment to carrying appurtenances aloft action of payment. He is accountable in amercement for abnegation to backpack appurtenances aloft an action of hire; however, accepted carriers may appropriately debris to backpack appurtenances beneath able circumstances.

Duties of Accepted Carrier

1. Acceptance for Carriage:

He is apprenticed to backpack all appurtenances offered to him for carrying by bodies accommodating to pay his hire.

2. Deviation:

A carrier have to chase his accepted avenue and have to not aberrate from it after cause.

3. Appurtenances Delivered in Time:

The carrier have to bear the appurtenances aural the time bidding in the arrangement for supply or aural a reasonable time. He is accountable for any adjournment acquired by his negligence.

4. Appurtenances Delivered to Appropriate Person:

He has a assignment to bear the appurtenances to the appropriate being and is accountable if he delivers them to another.

5. Cautiously Transportation:

He have to backpack the appurtenances cautiously and bear them cautiously to their destination, which may be assured in the agreement.

6. Apprehension for Acknowledgment and Added Charges:

В­The carrier have to serve a apprehension area the appurtenances are accustomed cartoon absorption to the charge for a acknowledgment a giving the calibration of added charges, and have to accord a cancellation for the added charges.