Show 0 ROOD ROADS SAVE MUCH GAS brucks use twice as aa much fuel on an dirt highways High fays as on on one built of concrete that good roads cut the cost of gasoline more than BO 50 per cent ti 14 stated plated by b y freight Tran digest A loaded two ton truck was wag used in a test arid and in running miles on an earth road consumed gallons of gasoline an average of nilles miles a rallon pallon the cost coat figured at 25 cents a jallon gallon was the same truck was used on a concrete road and traveled trave ed the same dl dig tance on gallons of gasoline malting making 1178 miles per gallon pit llon the cost coal lit in this cuse figured on the same basis was the net savings in ID cost of gasoline on the improved highway lit 94 was therefore or more than per cent statisticians could step in liere here and conjure a colossal sum to represent the savings lit in gasoline cost if all the highways of the united states were wera paved remarks the columbus 0 dispatch they could tor for instance assume that all of the one half million till llon motor trucks in the country were w ere two ton trucks and on this basis ba a figure oil out t a saying saving in gasoline costs equal to a couple of albet liberty ty loan issues this enormous reduction in gasoline costs c Os ts coupled with the ability to handle toads loads with less effort has become one of the strongest arguments tor for good roads the two test cited in this instance show conclusively c clu lurf vely that poor roads are expensive s to the farmer and merchant alike the farmer who baulis with a motor truck Is getting only one eighth of the he could get and the merchant and inter elty freight trel glit truck operator are paying out twice what they should for gasoline and are getting only one eighth of the profit they could get |