Truckman's Dream

For a few hours last week U.S. truckmen were given a brief glimpse of heaven. To speed war transportation, the Governors of all 48 States promised Jesse Jones they would accept a uniform national code of trucking regulations and would set up nationwide reciprocity on licenses.

By week's end this vision of free wheeling was somewhat faded. Some States are complying, but it takes more than a Governor's word in most to upset overnight a legislative irresponsibility that has been 20 years a-growing. Transport Topics, truckmen's weekly newspaper, ran a column-long, front-page editorial full of such charges as "Texas has taken no steps to comply," and "Definitely all trade barriers in New Mexico are not down." But when and if the Governors' promises are kept, they will remove one of the most important barriers to free movement of interstate commerce envisioned by the Federal Constitution.

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