Tour Broker License #1
Ten years after Tauck began
operations, the newly formed
Interstate Commerce Commission
held hearings in Washington to
regulate buses, trucks, railroads and
other modes of transportation.
Arthur Sr. went to Washington to
explain how his business operated:
he put together tour packages, sold
tickets to individuals, then chartered
buses to transport them. No such
category existed. He was not a
carrier and he was not an operator.
Baffled, one commissioner exclaimed,
“What the hell is he?” The so called
Grandfather Act of 1935 defined a
“broker” as a bus pick-up point, or
terminal, at which tickets were sold for
two or more competing bus carriers.
Eureka! “We’ll make him a broker,”
they declared.
And so, Tauck Tours was then given
License #1, the first tour broker license
in the travel industry.
Tauck Tours motor coach
buses with drivers – 1928
Chicago World’s Fair
Stock Market Crash “Across America” tour
The Great Depression begins. (See story on page 15.)
1929 1931 1933
Arthur Tauck Jr.
born
11
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