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Show GIG TERRITORY COVERED By REQ No more striking Instance of what can be done In the way of efficient motor truck transportation has bcn shown recently re-cently than that of a Uect of trucks operating op-erating out of Portland. It Is also a unique case of "co-operation among a number of private owners with a desire to benefit each other and also to Improve and hasten the acrvlcc. E. M. Grady of the Grady-Roucho company fald yesterday: yester-day: For the past six months or so there has been one or more trucks operating on various ronton out of the city. When business people began to And that they could send merchandise by those trucks efficiently and cheaply, cheap-ly, naturally the truck owners bean to have a good deal on their hands. Each did Ids level best to get the orders and lo deliver the goods, with the result that the fiervlee was Impaired Im-paired on one route In order to carry out Home order on another. Then these men began to sec thin the best way of all o do the business for their own good and for that of the business men ln tho city and without was to get together and work out some scheme whereby all the routes were covered at a regular schedule and each received his quota of business. The actual start was with ono Reo truck last July. Today there aro thirteen on the various roads, and four more will be added before tho end of the month, making a total of seventeen. The. first truck gave such good service that the whole fleet is made up of Reos, all purchased from the local distributers, C. L. Ross & Co. The directness of the service, the number of trips a day and Die rates charged, show just what an efficient service of motor trucks can accomplish accom-plish In the way of successful direct competition with steamship, electric and railroad transportation. If It were not such a. success the number of trucks would not havo Increased so rapidly. On the majority of routes there Is direct competition of at least two sorts, on some all three. |