Show THE TRUCK AND THE RAILROADS I ORE good news for those who envision the motor truck as big M MORE brother to the railroads looking forward to the time when its development will be just as well organized The Swiss state railways railways railways rail rail- ways have requested the government to take tale legal measures to prevent private firms from competing with them with motor trucks so heavily have these trucks cut into their business Not only has passenger traffic on state railways been cut down by the use of private motor traffic j but freight traffic ha has also been seriously affected by motor vans Every time freight rates are raised more persons avoid use of the railways and the truck service has hag become a formidable rival for the tho tran transportation of goods especially as they can provide door to door delivery One motor truck company proposes to establish a service between Italian and French ports thus taking goods coming from the United States direct to Swiss warehouses on motor vans Perhaps an important contributing factor in inthis inthis inthis this development de is the fact that a European freight car is not so much bigger than a large motor truck trucks It Is a deplorable fact that a European freight car is rot not so much bigger than a large motor truck It is a deplorable fact that whenever and wherever the motor vehicle begins to lo give the old railroad a run for its money that the latter with I its established organization and far reaching influence tries and often I succeeds in obtaining restricting laws to throttle the progress of the lusty little fellow that is treading on its business toes more and more |