Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking

by Daniel Madar

Overview

Canada and the United States exchange the world's highest level of bilateral trade. Trucking, their key transport sector, carries two-thirds of the goods. In Heavy Traffic, Daniel Madar examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade and integrated industrial logistics, have radically changed the industry.
  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870135569
Publisher:	Michigan State University Press
Publication date:	12/31/2000
Series:	Canada and International Relations Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Daniel Madar is a professor of Political Science at Brock University, Ontario, Canada

Table of Contents

Preface

Acronyms

1 Introduction

2 The State in Action: Regulation’s Origins and Effects

3 The State Withdraws: Critique and Reform in the United States

4 Deregulation, Discrimination, and Diplomacy: The Trucking War

5 The State Withdraws: Reform, Trade, and Federalism in Canada

6 After Deregulation

7 Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Editorial Reviews

This is a paperbound edition of a 2000 book. Daily trade between the US and Canada amounts to over $1 billion, much of it by truck. After analyzing the issues in the transborder trucking war triggered when the US deregulated its industry first in 1980, and post-deregulation trends, Madar (political science, Brock U., Canada) concludes that open roads have resulted in expanded markets and efficiency gains. One wonders what the author thinks about the outcomes of deregulation in other industries. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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