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Show MOTORS TO HAUL fill PH000CTS Successful Solution of Short-Haul Problem Confronting Transportation Trans-portation Expert. POPULAR METHOD OF MING Rural Freight Now Hauled by Farmer Who Owns Truck and Handles His Own Marketing as Well as That of Neighbor. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Hauling farm produce to market in motortrucks represents one means of the successful solution of the "short linul," one of the most difficult problems prob-lems which confronts the transportation transporta-tion expert. Method Is Popular. Failure of raifroads to keep pace wllh the expansion of the short-haul business, the development of the producing pro-ducing areas adjoining the larger cities in proportion to the production demands de-mands asked of them, and the upbuilding upbuild-ing of the motortruck manufacturing . r '" ... r 1: Motor Truck Used for Carrying Milk to Market. activities, as well as the recent war emergency crisis, have popularized this method of moving farm produce to market. Survey Is Made. The bureau of markets conducted an extensive survey of sixty motor routes to ascertain the defective practices and as far as possible to suggest improvement improve-ment which would stabilize the industry. indus-try. The bureau found that rural freight is hauled by the farmer who owns a truck and handles his personal marketing as well as that of Ills neighbor neigh-bor by motor, by the local truck operators oper-ators who haul farm produce as a business, busi-ness, by the local automobile or truck agencies that operate transportation trucks as a side line, by the city transfer trans-fer company which also engages in rural hauling, and by the large corporation corpor-ation which operates a fleet of trucks over a wide range of territory. Naturally Natur-ally with such a diversity in the hauling haul-ing agencies, there is a similarly wide range in their methods of doing business. |
