I'm starting a small transportation business with a partner, we have a US DOT # already, Do I also need a ICC-MC # and what is it for? We are transporting interstate and I want to be in compliance.
The Volt unit is named after Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist who invented an electric battery.
It is possible for Colgate to have been named after one Colgate Hoyt who was elected as a director of the original Wisconsin Central Railway in 1887, about the time the WC built through the area (there was a station on the WC s line into the Gogebic Range in Northern Wisconsin named Hoyt.).