Deregulating Freight Transportation: Delivering The Goods
(Paul Teske, Samuel Best, Michael Mintrom)
This book examines the effects of government intervention on the operations of the freight transportation industry. Mr. Teske is an associate professor of political science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Mr. Best is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Mintrom is an assistant professor of political science at Michigan State University. A summary of the book follows.
To the surprise of many analysts, federal legislation was enacted in 1994 to preempt remaining state economic regulation over intrastate trucking rates and routes and to reduce the remaining role of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in regulation of interstate trucking. These two actions largely completed the deregulation of freight transportation--an industry that represents more than 6 percent of America's gross national product--that had begun nearly two decades earlier
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