Before deregulation?????

I just spoke to my brother-in-law-whom started trucking fresh out of vietnam in 1973.He said the hot loads were run by us rebels.Mainly o/o's running o/w-o/s loads.Alot of times getting paid cash,keeping your contacts as they would use you again.He said he ran fast,back roads,avoided scale houses,avoided major highways when border crossing between states.He said it was a wild time.He also said he believes thats when the county mounties started posing as truckers on the cb-------to catch ya.
He compared it to moonshine runners.
Said he's going to send me a paragraph to read.

 

https://books.google.com.ec/books?i...epage&q=hot loads before deregulation&f=false

 

Supply and demand....
Wherever there is a product that is available in X area, but not available and highly desired in area Y, there is a supplier available for the right price. If you got it, a creative trucker usually handled the logistics. LOL LOL.

 

Thanks! I used to ride with my dad in the late 60s through 70s. Even if we were in a car, I made him swing through the lot so I could see all the great looking trucks before we could stop and eat. He mentioned a lot of those old timers, including the guy who owned those 2 Kenworths, Joe Cabral.

 

Before deregulation you use to have to trip lease for a back haul a lot of the time .
You had to go to the agents office and sign a contract for each load you hauled for them.
When you delivered you had to mail back their signs and the lease along with logs and the bills to get paid .

We had bingo cards and enough plates and stickers all over the cab you couldn't tell what color the truck was at times . Permit book was 5 times as thick as today.

Back then we did a lot of blind bills and false bills for the ICC .
We had to know what were allowed to haul and what we needed to sneak around with .

I can remember going into the steel mills in Gary Indiana and loading a coil of steel weighing 30,000 lbs running back to a towing companies lot have them unload it and run back to the mill and load another one.
Then have the towing company put the first coil right next to the second one .
Tie them down tarp them up and wait until one or two in the morning and then haul tail for St. Louis .
Paid for two trips in one load LOL !!!

I can remember trip leasing a load out of St.Louis to Chicago .
I had to sign the trip lease at the old Skelly truck stop in East Saint Louis.
When I got back from Chicago the next evening the agent and the trailer were both gone !!!!!
I never did get my 400 bucks for that load !!!

 

I guess then, that things haven't changed that much after all!

 

PITA in the old days were interlines.If you loaded a load that didn't have authority to complete,you would have to stop enroute,before you went into the area where you weren't allowed,and sign a completion lease,or interline.I loaded a big dough rolling machine out of Laura Scudders plant in California once back in the day,going to Grand Rapids Michigan.Was leased to Allstates-PIE back then.We had authority to move it,but not into Michigan.Had to stop in Gary,Indiana,sign an interline lease with a sister outfit,Ryder-Ranger so I could (legally) complete the trip.If you didn't stop and do your interlines,you would get your pee-pee wacked severely by your company.

 

Doesn't appear anyone wanted to tackle this question ?

Why and who would want trucking regulation ?

Why and who would want this same trucking deregulated ?

 

Regulation came about early in our nations history. The gov'ment controlled commerce. So when trucks were invented they controlled the movement of trucks. It stabilized the market place by controlling who and what could be moved. They then deregulated because the price to ship and move goods was high. They, thought it would help a stagnant economy to deregulate. It would remove barriers and create competition, thus lowering the cost to the end consumer. It did do all these thing. It however lowered drivers wages, and removed certain self imposed barriers to become a driver. So the end result is what we are left with today!

 

Regulation(full)assured that all points in the country, not just large cities, had truck service. Irregular route authority was most coveted. By the time routes were de-regulated you could get truck service anywhere, wasn't needed anymore.