In a message dated Tue, 18 Jul 2000 1:46:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "John A.
Swearingen" <jas@s...> writes:
<< It is my understanding that the beautiful old "billboard reefers" which used
to grace the freight trains of this country met their demise when the United
States Supreme Court declared them illegal. I do not have a law library nearby.
Will anyone shed some light on the court’s reasoning, and, perhaps,
provide a citation to the case?
Don't have the citation but it stemmed from an ICC rule in the 1930's. They did
not ban billboards per se--if the car was in captive service it could still
carry a bill board--Swift for Swift etc. It was the notion that a shipper
should not have to put his product in a car "labelled" for someone else
including a competitor.
Bill Uffelman
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