ICC under attack
23rd May 1975, Page 54
23rd May 1975
Page 54
Page 54, 23rd May 1975
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Talking of the States, there's been a great old public row going on since the beginning of the year about the Interstate Commerce Commission— which regulates road haulage, issues licences and controls routes, competition and so on.
It all began with an article in January's Reader's Digest which slammed the ICC as a wasteful bureaucracy whose rules cost the public vast sums of money and oceans of fuel.
Back came ICC chairman George Stafford with an eight-page letter defending the Commission.
In jumped Overdrive, a magazine which champions the owner-operator, with a searing attack on the ICC and Stafford ; it used America's more liberal libel laws to allege things about