Middle-Aged Agility: The ICC and Unregulated Trucking in the 1920's and 1930's

An overview of the Interstate Commerce Commission's (ICC's) role in unregulated freight trucking in the United States of the 1920s and 1930s is given. First noted by the ICC in 1916, the trucking industry, unregulated on a national level, had exploded by the 1930s, posing competition to regulated rail freight. The author argues about what the best solution in the public interest would have been against the backdrop of the Great Depression.