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Show TRUCK EFFICIENCY TESTS JiPIJNNEO Packard Motor Company to Divide $5000 Among Owners and Drivers. To promote maximum results in motor truck transportation, the Packard Motor Car company offers a total' of $5000 in awards to owners and drivers for greatest efficiency In hauling. The awards will be based on certified records of Packard truck operation over a period of three months, beginning June 1. AH Packard owners and drivers are invited to participate. partici-pate. There will be three awards of $1000 each for owners and three of $500 each, three of $100 each and three of $75 each, nine in all, for drivers. "In making this announcement," says R. E. Chamberlain, the factory manager of truck sales, "our first aim is to give substantial and active assistance to the council of national defense. It recently appealed to the country urging more extensive ex-tensive and more efficient use of motor trucks to help existing transportation problems. We believe this test will result in carrying full loads, careful routing and proper maintenance of trucks, all important impor-tant factorB in efficiency and the saving of freight cars for government use. "Our second aim Is to introduce more widely to owners and drivers the national na-tional standard truck cost system form, adopted and advocated for general use by the Truck Owners' conference. Inc., of Chicago. It has been proved that lmpor- tant economies to owners result irom keeping such records, and also that drivers driv-ers frequently better their wages by putting put-ting down In black and white the savings thev effect for their employers.- "Preparations for the inauguration of the test on June 1 are already completed. Entry blanks, the rules and the standard cost forms are in the hands of Packard dealers, where they may be obtained any time up to June 1. But I urge .every owner and driver to get them at once, study them over and then sit down and figure out what they are going to do to operate more efficiently to get one each of the $1000 and ?500 awards. "Every Packard truck, no matter how-old how-old is invited to enter," continued Mr. Chamberlain. "The trucks will be divided di-vided into three classes, to put the different dif-ferent capacities on an equitable basis. The one and one-half and two-ton trucks will be in class A; three and four-ton trucks in class B. and the five and six-ton six-ton trucks in class C. There will be no competition between classes. "The award to the winning owners m each class will be $1000. The first awards to the most competent driver In each class will be ?500, the second $100 and the third $75. The awards will be made by a board, of judges who are in no way connected with the Packard organization. Men who are nationally known as transportation trans-portation experts will be asked to pass on the records, and from them determine the winners." "We should all remember," concluded Mr. Chamberlain, "that it is our patriotic duty to do all we can to aid our country. If for no other reason. every owner should enter his Packard in this test. And for the same reason, even' driver should do his utmost to win. Efficiency In truck operation means the saving of thousands of freight cars and we need them now to back up our boys m France." |