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Motor carrier deregulation was a part of a sweeping reduction in price controls, entry controls, and collective vendor price setting in United States transportation, begun in 1970-71 with initiatives in the Richard Nixon Administration, carried out through the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Administrations, and continued into the 1980s, collectively seen as a part of deregulation in the United ...
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers, including interstate bus lines and telephone companies.
Motor Carrier Act of 1980, a law that deregulated the trucking industry This page was last edited on 8 September 2013, at 16:53 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Act was the first in a series of laws which collectively are described as the deregulation of transportation in the United States. It was followed by the Airline Deregulation Act (1978), Staggers Rail Act (1980), and the Motor Carrier Act of 1980.
Deregulation had first been proposed by U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975, [57] and President Jimmy Carter followed through by seeking and winning passage of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. [ 58 ] One of the last national negotiations that Fitzsimmons oversaw was another national trucking contract.
As many states continued to regulate the operations of motor carriers within their own state, the intrastate aspect of the trucking and bus industries was addressed in the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994, which provided that "a State, political subdivision of a State, or political authority of two or more States may ...
(The Center Square) – Mass transit legislation is once again on the table for members of the Illinois General Assembly. State Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado, D-Chicago, introduced House Bill 3778 .
President Jimmy Carter signs the Staggers Rail Act into law on October 14, 1980. Representative Harley O. Staggers, sponsor of the bill, stands to the president's right.. The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 is a United States federal law that deregulated the American railroad industry to a significant extent, and it replaced the regulatory structure that had existed since the Interstate Commerce Act ...