| Show FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE HAVE A HEART southeastern utah like other isolated districts of the state is s absolutely dependent for its very existence upon reliable ab le automobile and truck transportation service we have no rail roads here we are many many miles from a railroad the things that we e produce and wish to M market ark et and the things that we buy from the outside must be hauled b by y truck and automobile without dependable service our sect section i on will go back twenty years and if the transportation companies are continually pestered by inspectors taxed to death in a dozen different manners and made to conform to numerous new regulations every time the legissa turc ture meets it is a certainty that they cannot even remain in business bustness say nothing of giving satisfactory service there b I 1 a bill now before the legislature S B no 93 introduced trod by senator peters of Box boxelder elder county which if it enacted will simply kill the small transportation compa companies in the iso 4 districts of utah evidently inspired by the railroad companies to throttle automobile competition in the thle thickly kly populated centers the proposed law places so many restrictions around the auto transportation business that the small concerns in the outlying counties whose volume of traffic and income are necessarily limited due to sparse population would be compelled to suspend us operations and southeastern southeast utah like other isolated districts would havo cave to fall back onto the freight outfit and the pony express to supply its ts transportation needs the bill among other things requires that stage or dr truck imek lines must give a bond pf from to to guarantee safe operation that chaa a license fee of 5 per car this jn addition to the regular stated license must em be taken out that a foe fee of I 1 cent per mile for every ivery ai automobile or truck operated be paid and last but not least leut that five new state officers with fat sat salaries be appointed around the state to see that the trans horation po ration companies already harassed to death by a hundred bundred and one restrictions are properly observing thew law no auto transportation company that aves js dependable service and maintains a schedule in fact is 44 supplying plying the needs of its comm community unity will object to the provi provision slon of the proposed law which takes take S aay allay from the tho utilities commission the power to graj grantt monopolies in such service as ag at present companies les that arc aro giving real service do not fear competition and do not object to it but their very existence is threatened by the vicious provisions VIS ions relating to more lic license crise fees and taxes the bill should promptly be killed it is discriminatory class legislation if enacted it will do utah irreparable harm bam why should the legislature make it absolu absolutely toy impossible for the isolated districts to tet adequate travor tatiOn HMO I 1 K IV V riitta xi ittA |
