A CCJ Photo Gallery: The Nifty Fifties: Trucking in 1954.

Jack Roberts (CCJ)

Apr 4, 2014

Updated Apr 14, 2014

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By the 1950s, America was clearly the world’s leading nation. Trucking was helping fuel the booming economy and well on it’s way to becoming a leading national industry and technological front-runner in its own right.

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