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Trucking achieved national attention during the 1960s and 70s, when songs and movies about truck driving were major hits. Truck drivers participated in widespread strikes against the rising cost of fuel, during the energy crises of 1973 and 1979, and the industry was drastically deregulated by the Motor Carrier Act of 1980.
The company was founded in 1910 as the Bailey Motor Truck Company but was later renamed to Federal. The company then opened a factory in Leavitt Street, near Southwest Detroit. During the prosperous time of the company, around 700 people worked there, producing as many as 3,500 trucks annually. The main competitor of the company was Diamond T.
1936 – Second London Naval Treaty; 1936 - Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany; 1936 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected president, John N. Garner reelected vice president; 1936 - 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; 1936 - Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb named to baseball's Hall of Fame
Trucking achieved national attention during the 1960s and 70s when songs and movies about truck driving were major hits. Truck drivers participated in widespread strikes against the rising cost of fuel, during the energy crises of 1973 and 1979. Congress deregulated the trucking industry with the passage of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. [6]
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year
Citrus Strike of 1936; 1937 [11] 1,860,62 Little Steel strike; Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike; Fleischer Studios strike; 1937 New York City department store strikes; Pennsylvania chocolate workers' strike, 1937; Stockton cannery strike of 1937; 1938 [12] 688,000 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike; 1938 New York City truckers strike; 1939 [13 ...
1.1 Federal government. ... American race car driver (d. 1974) ... List of American films of 1939; Timeline of United States history (1930–1949)
In 1939–1941, the US Army Quartermaster Corps was developing a full, and largely standardized line of tactical trucks, that could all operate off-road, and in all weather. In 1941, trucks of 1 ⁄ 4 -ton, 1 ⁄ 2 -ton, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -ton, and 3-ton load capacity, (4x4), and of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -ton , 4-ton, and 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 -tons, (6x6), were in ...