Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 52 | How to Figure Ton Mileage of Trucks

livery, contingent on stops and loads to be dropped en route, what is called - the commercial ton mile is adopted as a standard of measurement. The absolute or railroad ton mile is one ton carried one mile; thus one toti carried five miles equals five ton miles and five ton tons equals five ton miles and five tuns Simply five tons carried three miles make fifteen ton miles. Absolute ton miles should bo figured in connection with motor truck haulage onlv when uniform hauls are made, that is. when one truck carries the same load over the same distance. By simply multiplying multiply-ing the number of miles covered by the number of tons carried the owner can easily determine the cost per ton mile bv the additional operation of dividing the average daily ton mileage into Uks average av-erage daily cost of operation. The result will be the cost per ton mile. These figures fig-ures are indispensable in keeping an accurate ac-curate account of delivery expense and profit. HOW TO FIGURE TON MILEAGE OF TRUCKS Do you know how to figure the ton mileage of your motor truck? It is an important factor in the successful operation opera-tion of motor trucks, especially on a large scale. Tho cost of operation can be-reduced to figures by what is In reality a simple process once it is understood, according ac-cording to Carl J. Simpson of the Pacific-Nash Pacific-Nash Motor company, distributors in this territory . for Nash passenger cars and trucks. Before arriving at the cost of truck operation op-eration It is essential to have the ton mile figure for comparison with the average av-erage daily cost of operation. Such a system will allow the owner to compare the operating cost of one make of truck with another as well as truck haulers with horse and wagon delivery. First, there are two classes of units for measuring truck haulage. One is the absolute ab-solute ton mile, while the other is the commercial ton mile. They should not be ronfused. The absolute ton mile is similar to that used in figuring railroad freight mileage. Because of the various systems of de-