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  2. Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The trucking industry employs 10 million people (out of a total national population of 300 million) [51] in jobs that relate directly to trucking. The trucking industry is the industry of small business, considering 93 percent of interstate motor carriers (over 500,000) operate 20 or fewer trucks. [52]

  3. History of the trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1910, the development of a number of technologies gave rise to the modern trucking industry. With the advent of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, improvements in transmissions, the move away from chain drives to gear drives, and the development of the tractor/semi-trailer combination, shipping by truck gained in popularity. [1]

  4. Transport industry - Wikipedia

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    The transport/transportation and logistics industry is a category of companies that provide services to transport people or goods. The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) lists transport below the industrials sector.

  5. Glossary of the American trucking industry - Wikipedia

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    A specialized set of jargon describe the tools, equipment, and employment sectors used in the trucking industry in the United States.Some terms may be used within other English-speaking countries, or within the freight industry in general (air, rail, ship, and manufacturing).

  6. Category:Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Trucking companies of the United States‎ (1 C, 56 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Trucking industry in the United States" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.

  7. Motor Carrier Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

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    Motor carrier deregulation was a part of a sweeping reduction in price controls, entry controls, and collective vendor price setting in United States transportation, begun in 1970-71 with initiatives in the Richard Nixon Administration, carried out through the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Administrations, and continued into the 1980s, collectively seen as a part of deregulation in the United ...

  8. Trucking industry in American culture - Wikipedia

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    The portrayal of the trucking industry in United States popular culture spans the depictions of trucks and truck drivers, as images of the masculine side of trucking are a common theme. The portrayal of drivers ranges from the heroes of the 1950s, living a life of freedom on the open road, to the depiction of troubled serial killers of the 1990s.

  9. Category:Trucking industry - Wikipedia

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