Singing Wheels - Industry Documentary Film From 1941 Helps Get The Highways Built

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The Highlight Reel's Comment
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Singing Wheels - Early 1940's Trucks and Transport in America - WDTVLIVE42

The Motor Truck Committee of Automobile Manufacturers Association sponsored this film in an effort to raise public awareness of the vital role trucks had for the economic and social benefit of America.

"Singing Wheels" Documentary

In late 1940, the Motor Truck Committee of Automobile Manufacturers Association, with the financial support of Roy Fruehauf of Fruehauf Trailer Company, produced a 22-minute trucking epic called "Singing Wheels". The film chronicles all of the various ways in which the trucking industry was involved in the economy, moving goods, providing jobs, and paying taxes. Fruehauf was also a member of the American Transportation Association (ATA).

The first motion picture to be made about the trucking industry, "Singing Wheels", with it's classic charm and timeless message, was used to help make the case by the Eisenhower Administration to Congress, and the American Public, for final passage of funding for the not-yet-existent Interstate Highway System. It appealed to their pre-WW2 sense of Patriotism and security with this instant classic:

“This year, trucks and highways on which they roll assume a new importance in the nation’s No. 1 job—National Defense.”

Fruehauf Trailers, incidentally, were Hollywood regulars, also playing central roles in "Smokey and the Bandit", and "Convoy".

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Old School's Comment
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Thanks for the walk down that nostalgic lane - that was some classic stuff!
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