Common Carrier vs. Private Carrier

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1. Which element appears in Article 1732’s common-carrier definition?
2. Under De Guzman, must transportation be the operator’s principal occupation before common-carrier status can arise?
3. Does serving a limited clientele necessarily exclude common-carrier status?
4. A scrap dealer regularly offers merchants paid transport on return trips. Carriage is ancillary and trips are irregular…
5. A manufacturer moves only its own products between its own facilities and does not offer carriage services for compensa…
6. An operator otherwise satisfies Article 1732 but never secured the necessary carrier permit. After cargo loss, it argue…
7. A transport company openly offers paid hauling to a sector of local businesses. Each customer signs a document headed P…
8. State the Article 1732 definition and explain two distinctions rejected in De Guzman.
9. Explain why a private-carriage label or absence of a carrier permit does not alone resolve classification.
10. Compare a business carrying only its own goods with one offering merchants paid hauling as an ancillary activity. What …
11. Did First Philippine Industrial exclude pipeline transport from common-carrier status merely because it uses no truck o…
12. How did Perena classify the paid school-bus service at issue?