Arthur Vernon Bachman, who founded Intrastate Freight Lines in Baltimore, died Friday of cancer at his Fallston home. He was 89.

Mr. Bachman was born at his parents' home in Fallston. He graduated from Youth's Benefit School, a two-room school near Fallston, and attended Bel Air High School.

He worked for a few years with his father in a family-owned lumber business, Arthur L. Bachman Sawmill in Fallston. He then worked for Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River for several years before starting his trucking business.

Mr. Bachman began his company at Pier 4 on Pratt Street in 1937 and operated it until its sale in 1959.

His trucking business hauled goods, including oil, steel, soft drinks and food, from area manufacturers to Baltimore's piers for shipping. At its height, the company ran more than 30 trucks.

"He volunteered the day after Pearl Harbor for the Army. He went to volunteer, and they wouldn't take him. They needed him to operate the trucking business for the war effort," said his son, Thomas A. Bachman of Fallston.

In the years after he sold his company, Mr. Bachman managed a trucking operation for a friend in Elkton and drove trucks for several other businesses, including a White Marsh concrete and stone company.

"He enjoyed that as much as he did anything else because he didn't have the pressures of the business to deal with," his son said.

After Mr. Bachman retired at age 65, he preferred to spend winters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He enjoyed fishing, as well as small-game hunting.

He was a member of Fallston United Methodist Church.

After World War II, he earned a pilot's license and bought a surplus Navy trainer plane that he kept at Harbor Field in Dundalk. A few years later he bought an Ercoupe plane.

He enjoyed taking family and friends on short flights, and took many for bird's-eye views of their homes and communities. He also flew to Ocean City and Atlantic City, N.J.

His son recalled many flights in the two-seater airplane.

"He was a very good navigator. He never got lost, and he always could tell me where we were," he said.

Mr. Bachman was married for 58 years to the former Isabelle Hitchcock, who died in 1988.

A funeral service will be at noon today at McComas Funeral Home, 50 W. Broadway in Bel Air.

In addition to his son, he is survived by a daughter, Susan B. Shockley of Ocean City; a sister, Lucille B. Daneker of Fallston; seven grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.