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Show i 1'" l " AUTO TRUCKS USES 1 ' ' Thousands of Individual motor ' trucks engaged In Inter-clty hauling are duplicating In time and tonnage the work done by a corresponding number of freight cars. A railroad train of ninety freight cars will haul bo more merchandise than a caravan of ninety motor trucks. ' Raymond Beck, chief engineer of the Federal Highway Transport Com mlttee at Washington, D. 0., and formerlychlef of the. B. F. Goodrich Rubber company's national touring bureau at Akron, Ohio, has develop-. ed these facts. I "Few people realise the tremen- : I deal strides made in highway trans- I II pertation during" the past year," i p Mid Beck, "Our statistics show mt that motor tracks are doing the (" work, tea for ton, that freight i Hj ear are doing. An average freight f ear travels but SO miles a day, and Yt s motor truck will travel 100 miles li4 ia that time. The average capacity of a freight car Is twenty-five tons. 1$ Although a five ton truck carrlse 1 oae fifth the load of the railroad I' car it travels five times as fast, thus I, equalising their performance." I ' Three big transportation problems I. are being solved by the Highway I Transport committee, acCordfng to I, Back. They are rural motor j-ett-j rVpVesr. service return loada'wwreaus l"-r1a'''eHies and the relief of "railroad I -terminal congestion In the big trans-. trans-. I yortatioa centers. I The committee has made exteiP M . arts alaaa to assist the farmer In hauling their crops to market or to a central station, so the farmers will remain on tho farm. Tho commit- , tee points out that ono mnn driving I ' a five ton trucn can haul to mar-' ket mom than three men with wagons wa-gons and cover threo times tho dls-, tance In n given time. Use ot tho truck would therefore release eight , men and sixteen horses to contlnuo vrork on tho farm. Several thousand ti ticks are now on rural express duly, but to encourage en-courage additional operators to enter en-ter this unlimited field returns bureaus bur-eaus are being established In hundreds hun-dreds of communities. By phoning the bureau In his community tho farmer may leave word for returning return-ing tt ticks to pick up implement's or supplies, for him, thus saving him tho time and expense of a trip to town. Trallets are destined to become a big factor In rural motor haulage. In some rural districts loading platforms plat-forms have been built by farmers and two or more trailers aro employed. em-ployed. Tho rural express truck delivers a loaded trailer and picks vp a trailer consigned to anotiiO" station on his route. A uniform stylo of trailer, which may bo exchanged, ex-changed, and hard surfaced roads nro necessary developments to insure universal success of trailer transportation. transpor-tation. Over 200 return loads bureaus have been established In the Unite 1 States and the system Is relieving thousands of frelgh cars for war duty elsewhere. Return loads have given enormous Impetus to intercity inter-city hauling by motor truck, said Beck. One of his chief reasons for tho railroad tie-up of last winter was the congestion and confusion at railroad terminals In the larger cities. cit-ies. To remedy this condition the the Highway Transport committee are mapping New York and other large cities into sones. Expressmen and 'cartage concerns operating In a specified tone must carry full loads to and from the freight stations. According Ac-cording to Beck, the plan will eliminate elim-inate he common practice of special trips for small shipments which only on-ly partially fill the trucks or drays. |
