The railroad story was repeated for trucking. It was cartelized, rates were fixed, routes assigned. As the trucking industry grew, the representatives of the truckers came to have more and more influence on the commission and gradually came to replace railroad representatives as the dominant force. The ICC became as much an agency devoted to protecting the trucking industry from the railroads and the nonregulated trucks as to protecting the railroads against the trucks. With it all, there was an overlay of simply protecting its own bureaucracy.
