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Show RAILROAD ENDORSES MOTOR TRUCK HAULING On the first page of a four-page dining car menu, the Pennsylvania Railroad is advertising to its patron.' the fact that "a new plan of cooder-dinating cooder-dinating motor truck and railroad transportation facilities was recently inaugurated on the Pennsylvania Railroad system. What is known as 'less-than-carload' or 'package freight' is handled as far as practicable between be-tween Philadephia, Pa., Wilmington, Del., and intermediate stations in motor trucks instead of in local freight trains. It is believed that this new method will bring about greater efficiency in handling thi.; kind of freight and so relieve railroad rail-road facilities as to expedite also the handling of long distance and heavy shipments in regular railroad freight service." Railroad systems, as such, have looked askance at the great road building programs ever being iniii- ated by States and helped by (he Federal Government. Their managers have beiieved that the more good roads, the more freight hauling would be done over them by truck, and therefore, the less freight there would be for the railroads. Proponents of roads and trucks have argued that the highway transport would relieve the railroad of the unprofitable short haul and by creating more business, create more freight for the long haul. Friends of highway transport ard hard surfaced roads are enthusiastic over the conversion of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Railroad to the idea that the . good road and the motor truck a e cooperators with, rather than competitors com-petitors of ,the freight car. |