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Show Trucks QlfitidVi Defends Trci'o Robert S. Carter, Ties president, Utah Motor Transport AaeiL, Bat . , , urday declared that trucks pay mora thaa their abar of highway costs. "What U the truth about ths " alleged aubaidy granted tracks T ha said, and continued. The no- ord la clear to anyone lntareated to the (acta. "It will be found In the only IT. 8. official and complete study ever made 'Public Aide to Trans portation.' Compiled under direction direc-tion of the late t reimportation ex- pert, Joseph B. Eastman, and Issued Is-sued as an. official fovernment publication, this report shows conciuaively that from 1921 through 1937 . , . the portion of total highway cost properly assignable as-signable to motor vehicles was 10.4 billion dollars the amount paid was 10.8 billion dollars, or an overpayment of SM million dollars. ,, "Trucks, he found, paid mors than their share so did passenger cars. A "The trucking Industry's shars In today's tax. payment comes to more than 30 otstha total, area though the number of trucks and buses Is only 17 of the number of vehicles. The ratio of motor transport vehicles and the amount of taxes paid by thenjis some- what higher In Utah . . ' |