Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-21 | Page 15 | Use of Army Trucks will be Restricted

USE OF ARMY TRUCKS WILL BE RESTRICTED Use to be made by the state road commission com-mission of the army trucks and other equipment, granted to the state from i the war surplus piled up by the war de-. de-. partment, contracts having been let prior j to the signing of the armistice, will be somewhat restricted, unless the present law governing the subject is materially ; changed. That law requires that they shall be used on only federal aid projects, i It had been thought that they "might be let to contractors who are doing work on state roads, and even to counties, for work on county roads, and that thereby the state might at least receive reimbursement reim-bursement for the cost of loading the machines on board the cars and sending them frequently long distances to LTtah. A telegram from Thomas H. McDonald, I engineer in charge of the bureau of public pub-lic roads, to Ira R. Browning, state road ! engineer, reads in part as follows: "Suggestion has been made that the act : providing for the distribution of road-! road-! building equipment be amended to permit per-mit state highways departments to arrange ar-range for its use on all rural post routes, without reference to the use of federal aid moneys." While such an amendment might extend ex-tend considerably the use that could be made of the equipment in Utah, there are still some important pieces of highway construction where the law would not apply. ap-ply. However, a large part of the state road program is in connection with federal fed-eral aid projects, and no fear is felt but that use will be found for all the equipment equip-ment available. ,