Show SEE NO NEED OF REGULATION Believe Motor Trucking Industry Will Solve Own Problems Challenging the pertinence ot of the movement mo to regulate com com- common com com- common common mon carrier trucks In Interstate commerce so far as public In Interest In- In terest la is concerned the highway transportation committee of the National Industrial Traffic league submitted a report to the league In In New York Tork at Its November meeting and published the tho de details de- de details tails tails of oC Its conclusions conclusion'S In the current bulletin of at the league There Is no visible demand on the part of ot tho the shipping public pub pub- public pub public lic for tor the regulation of motor trucks engaged In Interstate corn com com merce while railroad representatives representatives tives tI who testified favor regula regula- regulation regulation regulation tion says the report which Is based largely on testimony In hearings Just concluded by t the Interstate Commerce commissIon at various points throughout throughout the countr country SOLVE O OWN X The Irresponsible Is rapidly being driven from the highways and little difficulty Is experienced by shippers In ef- ef affecting ef effecting claim settlements settlement where trucks are used us d Shippers were aroused to thIs Issue early carly last summer when the announcement was made that the I r C C would hold hearings on the possibility of ot us 1 and truck regulation and an the rela- rela relation rela rela- relation relation tion of highway transport with the railroads The league meeting which was attended by several hundred traffic traffic fic directors of manufacturing In Interests In- In Interests approved the tho toll following owing seven findings of the committee report as representing the he sentiment senti senti- sentiment sentiment ment of o the league WHAT WIL THEY TIlEY FOUND 1 That the motor truck en- en en ga ed In Interstate commerce fur tur- furnishes fur furnishes a a character of or service un- un unobtainable unobtainable un unobtainable obtainable via viI nn any other trans trans- transpOrtation transportation namely agencies namely abil ability abil- abil ability ity to go anywhere at any time lime direct from fron the door of ot the sell sell- seller tell teller er to the door of the tho buyer buer with with- without without without out transfer classification re restrictions re- re restrictions or 01 packing requirements require mental 2 That the motor truck enables the conduct of ot business with smaller reserve reserve stocks than were formerly necessary thereby reducIng reducing ing lug capital Investments 3 That the called so-called fly fly-by- night by night or Irresponsible Is rapidly Ily being driven from the highways and that while loss and damage claims are ara not un- un uncommon uncommon un uncommon common little difficulty seems Mems to be bo experienced In effecting settlements 4 That there Is no visible de- de demaud demand de demand mand maud upon the part of at o the ship ship- shipping shipping shipping ping public for the reg regulation of motor trucks engaged In Inter Inter- Interstate Interstate Interstate state commerce 6 b That those railroad representatives representatives representatives who testified favor tavor regulation 6 That some owners and op operators op- op operators of ot buses or trucks favored regulation although the number of oC witnesses so testifying represented represented represented a small of ot the I whole and a goodly number of them seemed to b be Intrastate rather er than Interstate owners or operators 7 That there appears to be considerable difference of ot opInIon opinion opinion ion between those mentioned as favorIng legislation a ai at to whether slime seine should be administered by bytho bythe bythe the tho federal government nt the state government go or a combination combination atlon of the tho two W H II Day Da manager managar manag r of ot the transportation bureau Boston Chamber of ot Commerce Is chair chair- chairman chairman chairman man of ot the committee submitting the report |