Research Reports |
Title: | Commodity Exemptions and Relaxed Market Entry: New Opportunities for Motor Carrier Backhauls |
Authors: | Marc Johnson and Gene Griffin |
Publication Date: | Jan 1983 |
Report #: | SP-48 |
TRID #: | 01789887 |
Keywords: | back haul, commodities, exemption, market penetration, motor carriers |
Type: | Research Report – Staff Papers |
This is the seventh of eight papers in the Transportation Deregulation and Agriculture series, John O. Gerald and Ken L. Casavant, general editors, published by the Western Rural Development Center. The series deals with the nature and potential impacts on agriculture of the Motor Carrier and Staggers Rail Acts of 1980. These acts, in part, removed federal regulation of the trucking and rail industries.