This article focuses on two questions in the debate over motor carrier regulation. First, did
regulation create, eliminate, or have no effect on monopoly rents in the trucking industry …

Regulation, Organizations, and Politics examines the evolution of regulation at the Interstate
Commerce Commission (ICC). The ICC has probably had the most profound impact on any …

IN this paper we measure share price effects of several interrelated regulatory changes
associated with the partial deregulation of interstate trucking. Three focal points of this …

On July 1, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. This event
was the culmination of a long and controversial effort to reform economic reg ulation of the …

Federal policy towards regulation of the interstate motor carrier industry has under gone
substantive changes in the past dec ade. Overturning a regulatory philosophy of nearly fifty …

Recent interest in logistics and physical distribution has fueled a move to position such
activities as mainstream marketing functions. Transportation has been of particular interest …

Fifty years after the first issue of the Transportation Journal (TJ), we are still faced with the
task of sorting through the consequences of transportation “deregulation.” While the TJ is a …

This paper evaluates the effects upon investor returns of regulatory changes within the motor
carrier industry from late-1976 through late 1980. Several hypotheses are stated and tested …

John P. Palmer... no good theoretical link has been forged between the structure of [an]
industry and the degree to which competitive pricing prevails, because no good explanation …

Deregulation of the motor freight industry poses a serious challenge to social scientists'
understanding of how regulatory systems operate. In this research, it is argued that the …