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Show LITTLETM1LER"' IS MIGHTY 1HI1 : AS A HAULER In a. recent publication of this paper pa-per wa3 quoted an article from the Literary Digest calling attention to tne Importance of the little trailer attached at-tached to a motor truck for transporting trans-porting farm products from country districts to the rail transportation arteries ar-teries of the country. Now comes Mr. B. Parr of the Firestone shlp-by-truck bureau with convincing argument in support of tho "trailer" ns an economical econom-ical transporter. Ho pays: "Wo learn that tho trailer, given good level roads, can reduce operation costs 20 to -10 per cont. I "'One readily appreciates that railroad rail-road freight rates woujd be many times higher than they are if each freight car operated separately, since the number of railway employes and the total fuel cohsumpptlon would be j multiplied many times. "As the capacity of a truck, is coupled cou-pled and sometimes tripled when it hduls trailers, and .as under some conditions con-ditions it carr haul two or three trs.ll-ers, trs.ll-ers, It can be seen that to a considerable consider-able extent train operation cconomlos that hold good on the railways ire not impossible In operating trains of trucks and trailers on the highways. "Bad roads In many sections nrj the drawback today. But better roads are coming rapidly. As they become more general the use of the trailer, with Its attendant economies, is sure to become be-come more general." oo j |