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Show oo TRUCKS HUSKED TO mm SHORTAGE Director General Mines of the United Stales Railroad administration In a State -nicnt made public recently predicts a serlou . shortage of freight car transportation transpor-tation facilities. The statement is addressed ad-dressed to shippers and receivers anl urges them to help relieve the impending congestion Commenting on the announcement. R. E. Fulton, of the international Mot r company; said: "Director Mines' appeal prompts the question, 'In what way can the motor truck best serve to assist th railroad administration?" To answer this i Is but to emphasize the necessity of co (operation with the railways rather than competition. Let c motor truck lake over complete!) the traffic it has already ( proved itself to be more efficient to hao- die Let them be. in effect, branch lines I and feeders of the railroads to unload the freight at fh OUtlylpg railroad yards and deliver it to the consignee s door, incidentally at a lower ost and more quickly This would release valuahcl car space that is ordinarily tied up In switching switch-ing cars around within a city, and eliminate elimin-ate the necessity of leaving cars on sidings sid-ings or svur tracks until they can be picked up by a locomotive. "The development of motor expreas routes lo handle tonnage over shorter distances should be encouraged because they relife freight cars for long distance transportation. Shippers as well as the , motoi expeas companies should do nil in I heir power to provide capacitv loads and eliminate every bit of waste space they possibly can. This appeal by the railroad administration adminis-tration has a vast significance to tit! motor truck industry. It is proof thai ilu-railroads ilu-railroads do need the co-operation of ill the participants In the nation s trail -porlation scheme, and that the mo. or track will be called upon more and more each day to take over the traffic th: thf railroads cannot accommodate tj the dealer' it offers unlimited encouragement encourage-ment and .should be an Incentive to int-i-Slfy selling effoits. To the general public pub-lic it will mean better transportation rvice at a lower cost. The goods shipped by motor truck will reach the consignee quicker and in better condition As fa I a cost Is concerned, the motor truck I T a faa n has already shown that It Is more economical econ-omical than the railways in this form ol t r a nspoi tation Vet a great many people have .still to be educated to these advantages, advan-tages, and it requires forces of circumstances circum-stances such as this to provide that education edu-cation When there is anything that h'is always been done in a certain way, Ibv: general consensus of opinion Is that it Cannot be donr any other way until the pinch of necessity gives another method an opportunity to demonstrate I"s value " |