Over the last century, the United States has witnessed three approaches to achieving better
regulatory outcomes: the removal of “economic” regulations in certain sectors; regulatory …

Firms must continually adjust their operations and those of their supply chain members in
response to a continually evolving external environment. Many of these modifications are …

The motor carrier industry provides what in many ways is an ideal setting to evaluate the
effects ofregulation and subsequent deregulation on labor employment and earnings in …

Using data from the Motor Carrier Management Information System, we model crashes as a
function of firm characteristics, with a focus on the employment relationship. We find that very …

The only previous study of the effect of product market deregulation on the black/white wage
gap found that this gap in the trucking industry declined after trucking deregulation in 1978 …

We describe the regulatory regime under which international trucking operated in Western
Europe until the mid-1980s, the deregulatory process that followed, and the effect of this …

Conclusion The trucking industry has experienced a drastic change in competitive forces in
the past 20 years. These changes have led to longer hours and lower wages and arguably …

The traditional analysis of the European trucking industry shows a very fragmented sector,
with a large percentage of tiny firms and owner–operators with just one truck (see Table …

In Mexico, the commercial relationship between owner-operator truck drivers and supply
chains in the last-mile transport system is unbalanced; as contracting companies are …

This chapter begins with a description of the changes that have occurred in trucking labor
markets over the last quarter century. It relies on the survey data from the Sloan Foundation …