Washington University Law Review Volume 14 Issue 2 January 1929 State Regulation of Interstate Motor Carriers John J. George Converse College Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation John J. George, State Regulation of Interstate Motor Carriers, 14 ST. LOUIS L. REV. 136 (1929). Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol14/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ST. LOUIS LAW REVIEW STATE REGULATION OF INTERSTATE MOTOR CARRIERS BY JOHN J. GEORGE MAGNITUDE OF INTERSTATE OPERATION As could be easily foreseen, motor transportation has not recognized the accidents of state lines. It was imperative that this transportation become interstate, especially in urban areas near state lines, such for example as New York City, Washing- ton, Chicago, and St. Louis. Similarly, states like Massa- chusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, because of smallness of area, were destined to become the scene of extensive interstate operations.1 The mileage of interstate bus routes serves as one index to the magnitude of interstate motor carriage. Of the total 263,000 of common carrier bus route mileage in the United States 48,362 or approximately one-fifth is interstate. Of this interstate mileage Oregon has 2996; California, 2895; Massachusetts, 3000; Missouri, 3491; and New Jersey, 4488. We find, ex- pressed in percentage of entire bus route mileage (interstate and intrastate), that interstate bus route mileage constitutes 32 per cent in Oregon and Massachusetts; 40 in California; 62 in New Jersey; 70 in Rhode Island; and 93 per cent in the District of Columbia.