For a few hours last week U.S. truckmen were given a brief glimpse of heaven. To speed war transportation, the Governors of all 48 States promised Jesse Jones they would accept a uniform national code of trucking regulations and would set up nationwide reciprocity on licenses.
By week's end this vision of free wheeling was somewhat faded. Some States are complying, but it takes more than a Governor's word in most to upset overnight a legislative irresponsibility that has been 20 years a-growing. Transport Topics, truckmen's weekly newspaper, ran a column-long, front-page editorial full of such charges as "Texas...
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