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Show I FACTS I & FIGURES j America's common carriers have an uncommonly uncom-monly good record in holding hold-ing their prices down. While wholesale prices rose 94 percent per-cent in the past ten years, the regulated trucking industry in-dustry increased its ton-mile'1 revenue only 59 percent. Some congressmen are urging that the nation's trucking industry be deregulated. de-regulated. Yet, deregulation of the nation's air industry saw the cost of air freight rise by 40 percent. In the past two years, the productivity of the nation's trucking industry rose an average of eight percent a year. The productivity and efficiency gains hare been returned to the consumer in the form of low er costs. |