Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-03 | Page 40 | 'Ship by Truck' is Profitable Plan

'SHIP BY TRUCK' IS PROFITABLE PLAN New Method Has Palpable Advantages Over Haulage Haul-age by Horses. The ship-by-truck movement is opening open-ing many new avenues of profit to the shipper. An entire new field of resources !s being tapptd, bringing the farmer, market mar-ket and consumer into close relations. And in this marvelous development which motor express has seen in the last two years the value of tlie ship -by- truck movement to the manufacturers should not be overlooked. .To manufacturers, the motor truck of today is as important a unit to their production facilities as the very machines which make their goods. The use of the motor truck has wrought changes in every depart men t of t heir business and has done much to increase their production produc-tion capacities and to lower their overhead over-head expenses. Let us compare the cost of horse transport trans-port with that of motor shipments. "When tho manufacturer was wholly dependent on the former method, he either had to hire his horses by the day, or else lie had to maintain horses and stables of his own. The latter course entailed quite an outlay in buildings and drivers. It involved in-volved the use of a large amount of valuable valu-able floor space for horses, wagons, repair re-pair and paint shops. Furthermore, there had to be a blacksmith shop as well as loftr, for hay and grain. When he had made all this investment, what (Ud the manufacturer have? I te had nothing better than slow-movi ng hort.e -driven vehicles, whose actual capacity ca-pacity for service was limited to the physical phys-ical endurance of the animal ; and the ( horse, being an animal and not a ma-, ma-, chine, can be subjected to only a few hoilrs of hard labor dally if he Is to remain re-main fit for continuous work.