Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-01 | Page 43 | Making [Illegible] Pay Dividends

IKING THGK5 j J FAY 11QS j L Fourth Serl Article I jl Dealing With Freight j Operating. Carges. jxplains How Efficiency and Economyylay Be Obtain. j fenny wise and poui foolish motor jck operators are us.lly those who not know their rea;osts. Though jy can account for csry cent apcnl ; the truck, thought heir gasoliue !mp bo guarded likcthe Koh-i-noor A the time sheet .w.ched like' tho athhouse calendar, sui tireless econo-sers econo-sers are apt to lose t; most by over-iking over-iking the larger clermt of economy, -lich is servico rendeid. A motor truck is pmipally a means t moving freight and he more freight moves the more iocne it produces-it produces-it gross incouio and not gross cost ;her can alono dcttmine the effi-mcy effi-mcy of a motor tru-v as a business piianco. It is net; le optimum be-een be-een minimum outgo and maximum J :bme that the wie analyst seeks find. ... Performance is the riterion of net I sf it. At the worst, a truck which 'oduced a large milcare run and ton- jge hauled at the e;d of 'the year, m though it were extravagant ,of ;1, destructive to tins and a habitue i the repair shop woild be more'prcf- ) iblo to its owner ,han one which n a veritable wheelei Scrooge in both it and performance. The most ceonomica truck is the one it gives us much peformance as pos-'lo pos-'lo without excesshe cost. It is a !t that up to a c:rtain point the re mileage a truck runs the leas it 1 its per mile to-run. A truck which es superlative perurmanee not only is more work in a, clay, but in order do 80 must of necessity do 'itd work cker, so that the service renderod onics more valuable in quality as 1 as quantity. st System Failure. lany cost systems have failed bo-.80 bo-.80 they did "not lay sufficient stress in performance to make -the cost fig-ji fig-ji mean anything. The nature oi performance data varies with the .' ,'ereut kinds oi service to which j ska arc adapted, the performance !ird of tho operator of a 7 1-2 tan-. :a- huuling coal being necessarily dif-; , lint from that of a department siere :';venug packages ou a one-ton dell de-ll ry .car. They arc alike in piinci-iiowever, piinci-iiowever, and aim for the snme ul-;tc ul-;tc result, namely, a unit of .work jib may be directly paralleled with nit of cost. ; 1 -t!ia truck is hauling bulk comn'odi-i comn'odi-i (which are inoasured by the ton, (unit of work will be a ton niilo. ion mile is transporting one ton-I ton-I mile. Tho value "is the same Ihcr it consists of haulage of a ! y load for a short distance or of tht load for a ye rut distance. 'I bus, (ton miles may mean one ton car-five car-five miles or .five tous one milo. I truck delivering packages may be d on its package miles or delivery j miles. One hauling lumber may be d on 1000 board foot miles, or M f miles, as it ii abbreviated. An truck may use a gallon mile stand- j hiiicver the basis. Inning arrived I I yardstick bv which the perform-( perform-( of this vehicle may be measured, owner is then able to compare this i 3. the cost und arrive at a cost per ! of work. Comparing similar fig M i from different trucks, either others i 'is. 7"vn fleet or those of his friends, 'i I 'then give a true basis of compari-r,:J compari-r,:J . It may show, for example, that j truck which costs the most por day ;- .s the least per unit of work because Iocs more work in a day. It may x on the other baud that the truck fh travels tho farthest in a day is ing the most per unit .of work. At t it will provide a reliablo method ' comnarison which by nny other j hod thatn the reduction of both cost : .performance to a common deuomi-'. deuomi-'. " if you please, is palpably impossi- - jformance Records. j it of course the performance record t tro further than this. If any real j) ifit i8 to be derived from a knowl- of unit costs it will be tha1 it , Point the wav to economy and 'tcr efficiency ty showing up the fqucnts and revealing tho secret of n,d'.supcrior performance of the star The cost record will tell its own I MiT of gasoline mileage, oil consump-' consump-' i tire cost and the toll of the re-Bhop. re-Bhop. The Bhirker and the slug-' H wiH be apprehended by tho per-jj per-jj !iiilanco record. f an accurate record of lime spent ,("ig, -unloading and actually Tunning ") Symy abstract mucli significant data Ss .be time and percentage of lime ally Bpcnt in doing that for which i. tk is intended, vis.: running and 'i7'n!I ft.ln.id: how much and what Pnjortion of its time was spent in ' j"g and unproductive delays and llrly in unloading, and how much ,i: '.was lost owing to mechauical ad-ilD'j.Bputs ad-ilD'j.Bputs and repairs. Jf'th such data as this at his finger ''tWhat executive can fail to get 'service out of his trucks fo- loss i( To cite but. one example from I '8 being cited every day: A Pit's-i Pit's-i fj truck operator "found that his !j,j;b were operating an average of j Tnty days a month, or 1.'40 a vc-ir 't vcrv 'liK1t additional trouble 'tn'd Vnpmisc he was able to find extra work '-uffipient to increase t his to 2.5 ,1-ivs '.i veiir. im-reasins his profits Htii per vpar per truck, which in a 'fiftr truck fluot voubl uuiouiil to '-),-I'iOO'por annum. ' III this particular ca.e it was accurate accu-rate records alono which enabled this loak in his business to be discovered. The svatem oi' records employed was the ,,-itiof.al standard cost system for motor 'rucks evolved bv the Truck Owners inference. U was because tho system nroxi.led for a record of verfermance .jvot) a ef expenditure thai this ac-i-in-ate snalvsis could be made. -r)ie -.tc'ui, alreadv iu extenaed use, io available to evcry'motor truck opcr-ato'r opcr-ato'r in the country and at the bare cost of publication.