Show I TRUCKS BEST FOR FORI I SHORT HAULS IS CONTENTION I Graham Expounds on Production Production Pro Pro- du tion and Relation to Highway Transport George M. M Graham Gralam general sales manager of ot the Pierce Arrow Motorcar company compan In an address o on tho the relation of ot highway transportation to increased d production before the chamber of or commerce com corn merce merco of ot the tho United States made madeI I some Interesting revelations He Ho said In part The entire transportation of the tho United States is studying with interest the achievement o 0 of I i recently informatively presented In the Saturday Evening Post by Mr 11 Hunger- Hunger fordIn fordIn ford Cord I I In Cincinnati railway terminals are bunched yet owing to congestion con conr s an average of or two days and hours used to be required to move a freight car a few Cew miles between stations Now similar distances are ar covered In fourteen minutes by fifteen ton five trucks which transfer freight from Crom terminal to terminal The trucks also tap the thc suburbs bringing In freight In ample time for Cor or dally daily distance shipment in bulk and saving anywhere an from Crom one to four days Every has standard truck bodies which attach to the chassis When the tho railroad car comes in the freight ht is 15 quickly snatched from rom It and allotted to bodies destined for the thearl various vanous van vari arlous ous stations Only five minutes arc alc I consumed in taking off oCl one ono filled titled body and putting on another The service releases In a year car box cars from Crom trap work for profitable distance haulage The Tho cost is 80 cents per tos as against from Crom to 16 by previous methods Solve O the terminal question and you ou solve olve extravagant costs as well as time lost One expert B. B F. F Fitch president of ot the Motor Terminals company of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Cleveland has said that the installation in the metropolis of a a. mcton motor motor mo mo- tor ton system stem similar to that of ot Cincinnati would save New York consumers 45 in freight costs yearly Many items of cost inseparable from railway freight cas bo be eliminated when short haul shipment Is made by truck Included In these are items of boxing crating demurrage charges teaming between terminal points Increased increase weight caused by boxing and much Incidental in incidental incidental In- In labor and clerical work In n connection with billing tracIng tracIng tracing trac trac- ing etc etc- All these economies exert their in influence In- In fluence on production costs and volum vol vol- urn ume um c. c W v. J. J L. L Banham general traffic manager of the Otis Elevator company presents a a. very interesting table in which he be shows how truck costs In Increase increase increase in- in crease Is la proportion to the increased length of oC tho the haul Freight Motor cost COlt co coat COal t Road per p per r mil mu 10 fb lOO lb lbs Ken Ken- Tork 12 12 13 J 81 11 J 1 is 15 Pas Pa alc N N. J J. J I 0 88 is 15 Paterson N J. J 10 II U 05 st m ia Trenton N N. J J. J SI 51 U nil 1 65 65 5 Philadelphia P Pa 6 U 96 II 71 TI 7 1 70 1 11 12 15 76 76 N. N New veD Conn Coca IT 17 IS n I Providence It U. 1 J. J 14 11 l is Port Jefferson reon I L. L J. J New Tork York 71 jJ 91 ei 75 15 Asbury Park X N. J J. J 46 H 04 DC 45 es esTen Ten thousand motor truck haulage lines Jines are now registered with tho the national national national na na- na- na automobile chamber of oC commerce b by corporations or firms This organization organ organ- e estimates that there are Bre ore ore-an-j another another another an an- other lines being operated by In Individuals individuals In- In who own anti and drive the trucks Several of the corporations havo hare made mado investments from to more mora than We believe that to prove our ability to facilitate delivery dell is to establish our helpful relationship to production n Wo We should therefore like e specifically to polut out some phases of ot our service in Ia I tho four main types of ot production Food ma may well bo be dealt with firstIn firstIn first In the United States food rood producers are trying to feed themselves them- them selves additional American citizens and many Europeans It Is 19 an enormous task It has Ilas been made harder by waste from dis dis- No less an nuth rity than Herbert Hoover er has said that 60 50 per percent percent percent cent of ot tho the perishable farm tarm produce in iu inthe inthe the United States rotH rots on tho ground because of ot the formers former's Inability to set get et it to market Over American highways passes a aI volume volum and anti value aue of ot food tood products of ot I 1 I astounding dimensions |