§ 101-40.410-2 - Causes for suspension.

(a) The suspending official may suspend a carrier suspected upon adequate evidence of:

(1) Commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a contract for transportation;

(2) Violation of Federal or State antitrust statutes;

(3) Commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen property; or

(4) Commission of any other offense indicating a lack of business integrity or business honesty that seriously and directly affects the present responsibility of the carrier as a transporter of the Government's property or the household goods of its employees relocated in the interest of the Government.

(b) Indictment for any of the causes in paragaph (a) of this section constitutes adequate evidence for suspension;

(c) The suspending official, may upon adequate evidence also suspend a carrier for any other cause of so serious or compelling a nature that it affects the present responsiblity of a carrier; or

(d) A carrier may be suspended for any of the above causes based on a suspension by another agency where the original suspension does not have Governmentwide effect.