Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-05-27 | Page 31 | Motor Vehicles do Most of the Work

MOTOR VEHICLES CO fiSTOFJEWOI Local Distributor Produces Figures to Support His Contention. "The average man is arrustomed to think of the railroads and steamships as the grrate-st factors in the work of transportation trans-portation of freight in tlip United States. Their part la vkal. it ia Lrue, yet ia comparatively com-paratively insignificant beside the work done by motor vehicles ami horses. Government Gov-ernment statistics show that only 15 pei" cent of the work of transportation is done hy the railroad and st earn ship and t hp remainder. So per cent, is done ,by automobile, auto-mobile, motor truck and horses." Theae were the surprising figures producer pro-ducer last week hy Ka rl Winter, local distributor of Vim motor tru-kf, in support sup-port of his contention that the "saturation "satura-tion point" in the motor truck marker is not a matter to give vital concern to the truck dealer. "It was these ficures that induced the makers of the Vim delivery car to enter ihe business." continued Mi. Winter. "Their inveatisafions further showed that M per cent of the work accomplished by iiorse and motor vehicle consisted of the transportation of packages varying' in weight from one to twenty pounds. "Here was a field that offered not only immense sales possibilities, but. as further investigation proved, possibilities equally immense in reducing- delivery costs. The Vim engineers found that the railroads carry merchandise for six and two-thirds mills per ton mile. The 11 verarce storekeeper's store-keeper's delivery system was found to be transporting this Mine freight to the ultimate ulti-mate consumer at a cost from 25 to 50 cents per ton mile. By appyinp scientific methods to the storekeeper's tra importation importa-tion problems the. Vim exports believed this immense discrepancy in costs could be materially reduced. "They Accordingly set to work to design a car thai could most economically handle this immense volume of work of t'ranspor-lation t'ranspor-lation of paekapes weihinp from one to twenty-five pounds. The Vim delivery ear was the result. "There is no nuest ion hut that If the same scientific methods that are use-d by -the great railroads to reduce t.heii haul- I ing co,:t.s were applied riKoruutdy hy the averago merchant great savings could be I effected. Effective motor delivery cer- j tainly reduces hauling costs for the mer- chant far below that of horse-drawn de-liveiy. de-liveiy. It is possible, however, for motor delivery to be far from effective. Tt requires re-quires a real study of each individual delivery de-livery system to determine its particular needs. But under any circumstances the converted pleasure car is never wholly satisfactory doing truck duty, because its vital parts' were never designed for heavy duty."