Show j Specialized Trucking Companies li Common stocks the lead-f ing companies out performed the market from the early days of oil embargo until quite j because of the increasing cloudiness in the trucking issues began to come under greater selling While it is likely that this weakness will persist for a the longer-term prospects are considerably more A number of negatives will temporarily limit revenue and profit gains within the trucking There will be the economic softening affecting most of the business the runaway high costs of borrowed heavier outlays for labor and and the difficulties in securing rate DESPITE these depressive the possibilities for rebound in trucking equities are The features seem to have been well discounted at today's common stock and the likelihood of further large-scale price erosion is So the basic longer-term appeal of issues in this line remains quite WHILE the trucking industry is of broad the Research Department of Babson's Reports has analyzed for this report a special breed of those that carry new automobiles such as Ryder Woods and National City The business cycles of these concerns are affected by the output of new motor vehicles as opposed to other economic most auto-hauling companies have various both major and it is essential to measure the amount of business in this particular For companies concentrating in auto net and per share earnings can be dominated by the auto production THUS FAR in automotive sales and output have been off seriously discommoding the auto Viewing the auto makers estimate that a 5 percent year-to-year gain in unit volume for 1975 is Even this modest increase may seen suspect because of our lagging but there are some pluses in the for are drying up in several major auto-related the easing of money rates and the improvement in used car prices are favorable And we expect a pickup in auto production as 1975 which should be soon translated into more business for the auto Many new autos of transported by railroad because of the widespread geographical locations of the In recent specially designed railroad cars have been utilized for some auto carriers to help solve problems of theft and WITH the soaring price of gas and the economies of longer-haul railway the question arises whether the railroads will sharply increase their share of auto |