The Decline of the Great Lakes Package-Freight Carriers*

Daniel O. Fletcher

Business History Review, 1962, vol. 36, issue 4, 387-407

Abstract: Once a flourishing transportation agency, the Great Lakes package-freight carriers passed through a period of decay and disappeared during World War II. This article analyzes the economic factors causing the diversion of traffic that was the primary reason for the decline of the package freighters.

Date: 1962
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