Word: keeshin
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...scout car," followed by five huge trailers, each pulled by a different kind of actor truck. A second sedan, pulling a mall trailer, brought up the rear. At the heel of the first truck was a stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2), he was leading out his first caravan in a test run from Chicago to Los Angeles in five days, Los Angeles...
President Keeshin went only as far as Geneva, Ill. There he hopped out, waved a gleeful farewell, scooted back to Chicago. Few fears had he of breakdown or accident. Rather did he dread dirty political work from certain railroads and trucking companies in the Southwest which were gravely offended by his threat of expansion into their territory...
...trucking is still the province of nearly 300,000 independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...