Mike Parkhurst Overdrive Remembered

Mike Parkhurst says:
August 17, 2010 at 19:08
The trucking industry was NOT deregulated in 1980. This is a big, fat lie. The legislation
that was passed in 1980, to boil it down and simpify it was this: Suppose a truck line
had the ICC “rights” to haul Kodak film from Rochester, New York to Chicago, but, prior to this 1980 regulation, they did not have the “rights” to haul film back. Well, this legislation, forced down Carter’s throat (now the second worst president in the last 100 years!) only allowed that truck line to haul Kodak film back to Rochester. That was what
Kennedy called “deregulation.” It wasn’t. True deregulation didn’t hit until 1983 and, thank goodness, the ICC was sunsetted out of existence in December, 1995, the oldest and most inept of all the then commissions of the government. I think I know something about “deregulation” since my magazine, Overdrive, and my two associations, RoadMasters and the Independent Truckers Association, were primarily responsible for it, partly due to pressure put on Congress in the 1979 shutdown I organized as well as the 1983 shutdown both of which put tremendous media pressure
on Congress. I am so sick of hearing that trucking was deregulated in1980, but I felt
I had to comment and bring out the facts. Mike Parkhurst. This comment was posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010.