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Show uu iMDTOB i GROWS RftPIDLY The growing importance o the motor mo-tor truck in the transportation field is shown by figures recently compiled by the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company. com-pany. According to the company's figures j the 975,00 trucks now in use haul approximately ap-proximately 1,100,000 tons daily, or 330.000,000 tons a year In 300 working I days. ' I It is estimated that if the tonnage I carried In trucks had been carried in j wagons as formerly, the extra cost I would have amounted to approximately approximate-ly $1,000,000,000, tne cost of truck hauling being figured at IS cents per ton mile and wagon hauling at i cents per ton mile. This saving Is approximately ap-proximately the total amount available avail-able for the new road construction throughout ' the United States during 1920. |