Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 40 | Never Such Need for Motor Trucks as Now, Says Expert

t VER SUCH NEED FOR FORAS MOTOR Miff OR TRUCKS AS NOW SAYS EXPERT a SUI Supplying P 1 Y b n A Automotive tive Transportation 0 1 t l tugs Fac ili ties ileS Recognized Recognize d 1 as Essential to Modern l Military Mil lil 4 0 Operations tip till t r r I t i. i BY nY II H. H 1 11 PER n R flY k t Co Comm r f liil Vehicle Committee Commit Commit- tr Nn c Chamber r rk k tee ft of commerce r Period of or national i In n the Present importance of ot the motor tho the on n official Itself tick ck k la is toeing railroad executives the oil on and on merI mer- mer express e throughout I and manufacturers swig d never ne before as c. c country non men 1 in 1 or For an an arm Sr department requires our ur war w robe motor or Chicles o of which truck trucks 2500 OO in ill b be transport and mo- mo officers officer cars pees n factories ar arc work work- cies American orders for trucks and I I. g on anticipated that many more thou thou- a ordered during the com com- c mg m- m nd will be In the field fielde fiscal year Forces g dependent On on motor trucks for tor all aU r re e food clothing ammunition nd medical cal supplies The Injured In to hospitals back tl are remo removed d s t too the line line In la motor ambulances vehicle is as essential to Tb The lime power Bern ern military operations s as ay artil- artil j U. U Every belll b erent In the tho war Isi la Is i lag Ing motor trucks to the great greatest cst extent About are In 1 se 50 fl en on all an the lie battle fronts How the motor omnibuses were rushed j France to carry troops troop from the theo and later to haul dressed beef o ut st how the battle of ot the or or orthe the soldiers farce that saved Paris from Inva- Inva Ion was nM won b by a 1 flanking movement mo ith troops rushed up from I hind the French capital In motor uses tes taxicabs and touring cars and andow ioV ow tho the defense of oC Verdun was made only b by vast supplies of or mu- mu ItlO I brought up by a steady stream if motor trucks running da day an and night re ire all an similar stories But the nar- nar live of or the tho less s spectacular but no nos MS s Important service of ot the tine motor ruck In the present war remains to be old 14 Forty Fort thousand American motor rocks were shipped to the three prin- prin h entente allied Eng belligerents Eng Eng- ind nd France and Russia Russia during during the Irit t it three years cars of ot the war the great on on ord order r by the respective In the fiscal year ear Im- Im preceding preceding- the war our ex ex- ex arts of or trucks to these three counties coun- coun ties tIe totaled only 07 0 Construction of oC our sixteen national tiny cantonments housing HO to COO men each In the amazingly o art t period of at three months wade was wa do de possible partly b by the I use e of mo moo- moor or or trucks for hauling hauling- material build build- ng g g roads road etc from tho ho Immediate war nee needs s so op of o motor truck service the coun country tr o fronted with transportation exceeding the combined les III s of the American railroads with belr OOOO miles of or and anual anual an an- ual freight carrying capacity of ot ton miles tiles ha has turned for relief r relief to the motor trucks t o sned and operated b by private busin busi- busi ses n a and man manufacturing concern concerns If IC L- L Lt short haul work can be taken taleen off oft he be shoulders of ot the railways s 's by mo- mo 1 trucks it will greatly reduce the ng of miscellaneous s small ship ship- in the yards ards and freight houses If the he terminals This will clear theay the a ay for tor the more Important through of foodstuffs materials for manufacturing coal munitions and army nt supplies It will also release thousands of freight ht and express carfi car cars fi and fia a hundreds of or locomotives and aud train trait rewa for the long distance hauling g hat at can be handled only b by the ho rail rail- Pads Elds o ads h a Motor for Short hort Haul The war ar industries board and the tho war ar board are arc no now alive all to the situation and nd are arc Inviting In the aid old I ft ot the Ule motor truck interests to take j I ier fer all the short haul work possible Last fall faU the British government gO de decided decided de de- I to impress motor wagons Into more moro extensive ue use It called for a census census cen cen- sus of all steam trucks tucks registered In InEn En England and Initiated a movement to co ordinate th the operation of or such road rond vehicles with the railroads It Jt t Pins has been proposed Sn In Washington that tho the railroads railroads rail rail- roads be he to III place ace an embargo on all shipments f lass than carload freight and express from points within about twenty five miles stiles of ot the larger cities forcing such shipments to tobe tobo tobo I bo be handled b by motor truck Although on only under tentative consideration atlon it nt pre present such uch action ma may bo be forced at atan atan atan an earl early date by the increasing pressure pressure pres pres- sure SUe on time the railroads While hile this would be a radical move mo It ht would on only I b be b. the extension on a universal scale of work th t Is being I done one b by motor trucks here and there all Ill over ovel the tho country countr In n man many of or the larger cities there there are are motor express s companies operating fleets of trucks over re regular routes to points from rom i ten to forty ort miles distant Department stores regularly deliver er b by motor wagon throughout Jt a territory h a radius of ot twenty five miles or more I and Innumerable manufacturers an and merchants various lines make maee shipments shipments ship ship- ments b by motor truck for tor distances up to fifty and even one hundred miles mUes It ItIs Itis Itis is a regular feature o of the l b business of oC the moving mo van companies to move household furniture b by motor van an any distance desired There Is nothing uncommon uncommon uncommon un un- common in trips of this kind Ind between New York and ami Bo Boston ton or New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Washing Washing- ton There are at least two trucking companies companies com eom- p that op operate rate trucks between New York and Philadelphia One has hasa a a. fleet of oC two twenty-two ton five trucks s that operate on a dall daily schedule be between between between be- be tween the t two vo cities a distance of ninety miles In n addition contracts are taken for special trips to Baltimore Washington Harrisburg Pittsburgh and to New ew England cities Recently a n company was or organized In Detroit to operate a fleet of oC motor trucks with trailers at three hour In Intervals intervals In- In ter als dall dally daily over o the mile forty-mile route from Detroit to lo Toledo Practically all shipments from tine the rubber factories s in I Akron Ohio to Cleveland are made h by mot motor l' l truck truee and ono one of the rubber tire lire companies ha has operated a n motor express ex ex- press service with four trucks houcks between Akron and Boston Mass rass Time The schedule calls for a round trip of 1500 miles h In InI I seven heven days The fhe trucks carry earn finished I tires from the factory factor to the company's compans ea eastern tern branches blanches and amid bring back cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton fabric and machinery This longes' longes re regular ular trucking service has been If Ir operation since last April and will wll b b continued throughout hout the flue weather and road conditions permit permit- ting tin rD n Recognition I F Few people realize as yet the great grcar leV possibilities of or motor trucking bucking Several government d departments J have ha dis dle displayed played more enterprise prise In this direction than the American business nan man Tilt Tite quartermasters quartermaster's department U. U S. S A A. has haR arranged for fOI delivery of ot nn v l trucks for the array army by highway from the factories to Atlantic ports for tor shipment shipment ship ship- ment abroad Thirty thousand of ot these Uiese will wll he bo driven en over o the roads h In trains of or thirty trucks each forming regular army truck comp companies The trucks will carr carry full loads of spare parts and sup sup- plies lilies The decision to move mo the lie trucks and their in this cargoes wa way Instead of b by rail will effect a saving in the theu u use e of lj 1750 O freight cars end and 15 and train crews Time The postoffice d department nt Is fully tully awake to the tho possibilities of the motor truck It has put I In operation a motor truck parcels post se service senke Ire between Philadelphia and Baltimore and has hal I called for tor bids bid for similar scan services k es between be between between be- be tween Philadelphia and New ew York New I 4 I j W. W K Lovering Layering n i I It t t- t 4 1 I r f Jj f fw J Y l AV w. K I Lo LoverIng Co York and Hartford Conn and Detroit and Toledo The Thc postmaster general has i recommended ceo mm ended the organization of motor truck trul parcel po post t service out of all larJ large e cities to a n distance of ot fifty flety miles with the object of oC bringing the producer of tarn farm arm products and the consumer consumer con con- sumer Into direct touch thereby helpIn helping helping help help- ing In- Into to reduce the rising cost of living ln It Il Is easy to foresee the tine eventual development b by the government of or a complete wide nation-wide system of oC Intercity intercity Inter Intel city It mall mail an and package transmission by motor wagon waJon which will probably take takeover takeover over and supers supersede de tho the business of ot the national express companies Co operative r Deliver r cr The Tho postmaster general has even e ex expressed expressed ex- ex pressed a will ness ns-ness to take over OYer all the delivery work w of ot the lie retail dr dry goods merchants In New York City the time proposition being to purchase the delivery de delivery de- de livery II equipment of or the stores and haeth have ha havethe havethe th the merchants forward all their packages packages packages pack pack- ages h by parcel post This Is a Variation of oC the operative co-operative delivery er service ser that has been developed e b by private enterprise In dozens of or small email cities Itle an and towns and which has resulted in great economies An investigation In of or one twenty such mch operative co services services ices ies ma made e b by the commercial economy board hoard of oC the C. C Council unell of ot National Defense Defense De De- tense showed that the they were operated with 07 07 men Instead of oC the re required required re- re by the time Individual services pre pre- maintained Th Th possibilities of oC tan transportation L by motor motol truck have ha hardly bC been touched In the network of IC highways covering co the thc country the lie motor trucks In service and the hundreds of ot thousands l more that will be produced b by Ameri- Ameri American can an factories within the ne next two or 01 three years earll the time United States possesses possesses pos pos- a transportation resource second only onh to the great railroad system of ot the country The motor trucks now In u use e eare are aln already adv supplying a yearly early ser l service e eor of or ton mile It Is estl- estl mated l flint that tint mauled 1 1 DO oon t d e- e tons loos I of OC 1 merchandise rc and n materials t In I 1917 The True service has been Indispensable ble as a's It Jt would have ha been Leen impossible to 10 do dD all tits this hauling and delivery I work with horses