interesting:
Sidney Lifschultz, 90, a native Chicagoan who built his father's trucking company into one of the country's largest family-owned freight concerns, died last month in New Rochelle, N.Y., though he had lived in recent years in nearby Larchmont, N.Y (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text). In the late 1890s, Mr. Lifschultz's father emigrated from Russia, beginning what would become Lifschultz Fast Freight with a rented horse and wagon in Chicago in 1899. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Mr. Lifschultz expanded the business into an international freight forwarding service that pioneered railroad "piggybacking," in which tractor-trailers were loaded on flatbed rail cars. In the 1940s, he moved to New York City to work in the company's offices, though "Chicago remained the central axis" of the company as it expanded, said his son Lawrence. He met his wife Charlotte Kessler Lifschultz when they both were vacationing in Florida, and he asked for her phone number, remembering it though he had not written it down, his son said. They were married for 60 years until her death in 2000. Active in the family's businesses until just before his death, Mr. Lifschultz used the trucking deregulation of the 1980s to change Lifschultz Fast Freight into a company sending larger and larger amounts of freight over road instead of rail. But with larger companies taking advantage of deregulation to gain greater segments of the market, in 1987 Mr. Lifschultz filed a $1.8 billion antitrust suit against the three largest trucking companies in the country, which he pursued to the U.S. Supreme Court before giving up.
