Description
Book SynopsisCanada and the United States exchange the world''s highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry.
Before deregulation, restrictive entry rules had fostered two separate national highway transportation markets, and most international traffic had to be exchanged at the border. When the United States deregulated first, the imbalance between its opened market and Canada's still-restricted one produced a surprisingly difficult bilateral dispute. American deregulation was motivated by domestic incentives, but the subsequent Canadian deregulation blended domestic incentives with transborder rate comparisons and concerns about trade competitiveness.
Daniel Madar shows that deregulation created a de facto regime of free trade in trucking services. R
Trade Review
Professor Madar provides a strong, well-crafted and insightful account of the process by which the highly regulated trucking industry was deregulated after 1980 in the U.S. and Canada, and how, in conjunction with free trade and industrial changes, the trucking business has been transformed. -- The Donner Prize Jury
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
