Friday, September 19, 2025

the railroad lobby once successfully convinced Illinois to limit the total length of a tractor and trailer to just 35 feet.

if trucks were too short to be an efficient method to move cargo, more freight would be shipped by rail. 

https://www.theautopian.com/six-decades-ago-general-motors-made-semi-trucks-carry-more-weight-by-turning-the-truck-into-a-cracker-box/

this was back when states had the control over the highways, before the federal interstate system changed that to federal laws on the interstates

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