Just a two years after the war, US had more than a million trucks on the roads. Meanwhile, the roads got improved and diesel engine was introduced.
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Famous New Deal from 1933, requested that every industry create a code of fair competition.
By the summer of the same year the American Highway Freight Association and the Federated Trucking Associations of America merged and formed the American Trucking Associations.
Next year, on May 21, the first ATA’s president, Ted Rogers was the first truck operator who signed code of competition.
One year later, congress passed Motor Carrier Act and replaced the code. Interstate Commerce Commission got authorized to regulate the trucking industry.
In 1938 congress enacted the first hours of service – HOS regulations.
Although, President Roosevelt was taking initiative to explore the idea of inter-regional highway system, World War II and political passivity caused building highway to be put aside.
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