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Show TRAILER ALSO i BUSYWORKER Little Brother to Truck Is Making Secure Place in Short Haul Field "While tho motor truck Is attracting attention as a modern marvel In the short haul transportation field, Its little lit-tle brother, the trailer, la quietly saw-.!n? saw-.!n? tomo wood in that field Itself, itao Is destined, according to shlp-by-truok advocates, to take a future role of primary Importance. IS. Farr, director of tho shlp-by-" truck bureau, at Akron, Ohio, which oporatey sixty-five branchos throughout through-out the United States, sees this future X6r the trailer foreshadowed today In several sections of tho country, but notably In California, whoro one com-' pany Is now operating twonty-nine trucks and trailers on a motor cx- press roulo between Stockton and Fresno. "On this route," says Mr. Farr, "big truoks with through loads operate between be-tween the cities. But at way points nitri hllyhpfl hv thn pomnanv thov droD and pick up trailers. Smaller trucks at these way points pick up tho trailers, trail-ers, distribute tholr loads in tho towns and country roundabout, and obtain new loads. "In other words, tho big trucks carry car-ry main lino Ioad3 only, and the smaller trucks tako care of the branch lino business. And the trailers obviate obvi-ate the necessity of transferring the freight from carrier to carrier whenj It 13 switched from main lino to, branch. "It seems reasonable to assumo that a3 good, level roads becomo general throughout the United States, this system now being practiced successfully success-fully In California will becomo general, gen-eral, since it can reduco costs of motor transport 20 to 40 per cent." |