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Motor Carrier Deregulation: Implications of Florida's Experiences for Northeast Agriculture and Rural Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Richard Beilock
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department of the University of Florida
James Freeman
Affiliation:
Management in the College of Business and Economics of the University of Kentucky
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Abstract

Deregulation and reregulation of transportation is one of the most significant policy developments of recent years. It is important to understand the impacts of such changes on the availability of transportation services to agriculture, small communities, and rural areas. In this paper the experiences of shipper/receivers, carriers, private carriers, and agricultural truck brokers in Florida, the first state to deregulate nonpassenger motor carrier transport, are examined. Implications of these experiences for the Northeast are drawn. These findings are of particular interest to Maine, the second state to have deregulated nonpassenger transportation.

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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