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Show LIMIT FOR TIRES AND LOADS Chairman Dlehl of National , Roads Board, Favora Highway Convention Conven-tion of State Commissioners. A meeting of leading stato highway commissioners and tho manufacturers of horse-drawn wagons and motor-driven motor-driven truckB, 1b the suggestion of Chairman Georgo C. Dlehl of tho A. A. A.' National Good Honda board, to consider legislation governing the width of tiros and tho weight of loads. "Many states have enacted laws to regulate the width of tires, but there has not been strict enforcement of these regulations," says Chainnan Dlehl. "Narrow tires, especially during dur-ing tho wet season, form ruts In Improved Im-proved roads, and in many instances where tho roads are weak, break through the surfuco, causing rapid destruction de-struction of tho highway. "One great difficulty In enforcing wide-tire ordinances with horse-drawn vehicles has been that while less traction trac-tion is required with wide tires, on slippery clay or hilly roads, it is very difficult In wet weather to manage a horse-drawn vehicle with wide tireB. owing to its tendency to skid and slide into tho ditches. , "Equal, if jiot greater damage, can be done to the highway with tires of insufficient width on motor trucks. There is no state where wide-tiro ordinances ordi-nances aro drawn which relate to both horse-drawn and motor-driven vehicles, ve-hicles, or whoro a scientific attempt haB been made to preparo such ordinances ordi-nances or whore a strict enforcement la had. "It is also ontlroly practicable and reasonable that tho weight of loadB should bo limited, as the bridges, which form an integral part of tho highway, aro not, in a great majority major-ity of cases, sufficiently strong to carry weights which aro becoming more and moro excessive." |