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Show Transportation Call Great Problem in America Has Been Solved by Use of Motor fl Truck and Motor Trailers ; More Than 900,000 Motor j Trucks in Use in Various Parts of U. S. jj Transportation is the one great problem prob-lem of today nd the greater problem prob-lem of tomorrow Tim answer ii the motor truck and the trailer and, as a matter of fact, thi automobile and trailer. A trailer or more for every truck used for commercial purposes a trailer or more for every one ofi Ihe iwo million or more fanners with! automobiles - il Juat Sense. And just I renii-mher I lu re are Hanger trucks and trailers- ready. Aceordinjjio ihe motor vehicle regis reg-is tratioji-or the National Automobile Chamber oi Cotnaacrce there were on lul l. Inst. !7...::7s motor trucks in' U8i in the Ujnliej) States Thifi La an I Increase of more than 300,000 as com-1 pared wjih the legislation on the same date of 191&. This m ans that many more are need in the eountrv today -that the country i lust awak-J ening to the necessity of operating! mdtor trucks. Then- is almost an unlimited un-limited market. As to trailers- the companies man-tlfai man-tlfai luring trailers caunot come near supplying the demand, and it is hard to figure where the trailers that are going to be needed for such move-' menu as snip oy iiuck. eic . tire comlnc from. A similar situation exists ex-ists as regards motor truck bodti i KNOW CONDITIONS. It is imperative that iuvestors know these conditions; that they appreciate for what they are worth these newer branches of the automotive industry, knowing as they do what the aiiiomo-bile aiiiomo-bile industry proper has meant to in vestors in the way of profits. Southern Motors is manufacturing and marketing Ranger trucks and trailers and they are of a caliber that in. a - ii i i s up v. ii h i I-,.- be : products in those lines on Ihe American market today, and that means the best In the world. The market is awaiting them Just for example bere are a few pertinent Figures that are helping du! OVer 'he motor truck and Ihe itaihr as a transportation unit and augmenting augment-ing the demand: Read them and think them over. Before the war a freight car cost about $1000 and earned about $1250 a year. After the war a freight tar cost about $3000, anct-dntil the recent action of the .interstate commerce commissi m. earned only about $1800 a year. Obviously, no amount of ingenuity in-genuity or economy in management could conquer ligures like those. Before the war ihis count ry was building about 150.000 new freight ur a year; during Ihe war (he production declined tremendously so that the country Is scores of thousands of freight cars below its normal needs today. Such freight cars as the country has are idle on the sidings, or walling to be loaded or unloaded, an averse of I 35 per cent of their time in fact, it ha- been estimated that H could ihe shippers of America dimin Ish by ono hour a day the average de lay on a freight car It would be equlva-lent equlva-lent to adding 140,000 cars to the coun-railroad coun-railroad equipment. If they could d im- ways io load I lie freight cars to 75 per cent of their capacity, instead of an average load of TO per cent of J their i as a? present, it would help the railroads as much as though 120.000 new tars were built and Hut it isn't being done. Consequent-ly Consequent-ly the railroads are depending m.e and more upon truck transportation ami. especially, upon being aided by H motor tniok transportation .is fai .i-- Jfl ilu short, haul is concerned. The mo truck and trailer with its quick H loading and unloading facility, direct H delivery of commodities, its ability to H transport Ma maximum load, together with economy of operation, is forging to the front, noi only a. an accessor? ,JH bul also as competitor of the rail- H ml im1. ie: i .. uri;c M Grab; n (H with the conclusion, also, that the mo- J tor truck Is ono of the most effective jH means for rebuilding the vanished ii. ,.t ii... i sag Creuil oi um i-iri uu Minora .'i United States. In an address before i lie reeent convention of the American BlbCUiC Railway association, he ad-leii ad-leii the electric railway Interests to I leave the carrying of freight to the iH 'radio;!, Is and the motor trucks and to , eliminate unfair bus passengVr com ; petition b) Installing motor buses themselves. H |