If the truck becomes mired, it is equipped 

 with a power-winch to pull itself out 



ONLY a few years ago the plan of 

 establishing a regular freight-carry- 

 ing service with big motor-trucks 

 over a distance exceeding fifty or, perhaps, 

 seventy-five miles, would have been con- 

 sidered extremely visionary if not im- 

 possible. Today a large manufacturing 

 concern in Akron, O., maintains a regular 

 freight service 

 by five-ton 

 motor -trucks 

 between 

 Akron and 

 Boston, a dis- 

 tance of 740 

 miles one way 

 or 1480 miles 

 for the round 

 trip. 



The concern 

 manufactures 

 automobile 

 tires and rub- 

 ber goods and 

 has a great 

 number of 

 branches in 

 cities along the Eastern 

 seaboard. To these it 

 must deliver goods regu- 

 larly and promptly- The 

 inability to get cars when 

 needed often meant that 

 some })ranch would run out 

 of tires and would be 

 comi)e]|ed to refuse busi- 

 ness because it could not 



Truck Service Overland 



Congestion of railroads and 

 scarcity of cars causes long-haul 

 motor truck service to be instigated 



By Joseph Brinker 



deliver the goods when a call came. 

 There seemed to be little prospect 

 of an improvement in the situation 

 and, fearing that the railroad congestion 

 would eventually make it impossible for 

 the company to carry on its business, 

 the heads of the corporation decided to 

 employ a number of large motor-trucks 

 to deliver its goods to all of its branches 

 east of the Mississippi River. They 

 fully realized that it would cost more to 

 ship tires cross-country by trucks than 

 by rail, but they would rather pay the 

 additional cost and continue their busi- 

 ness than shut down and do no business 

 at all. Nothing is more expensive than 

 doing no business. The expenses of main- 

 taining the factory and the branches 

 continue, as do the interest on the in- 

 vestment, de- 

 preciation, 

 etc., whether 

 one tire or a 

 thousand tires 

 are made a 

 day. 



The trucks 

 now in oper- 

 ationmakethe 

 740-mile run 

 between 

 Akron and 

 Boston in 

 four days, 

 w h er e a s it 

 took from ten 

 to fourteen 

 days to make 

 the shipment by railroad. 

 When this saving from 

 six to ten days is con- 

 sidered, it may readily 

 be seen that it pays the 

 company to stand the ex- 

 tra cost of truck trans- 

 portation which is prob- 

 ably somewhere between 

 seventy - five cents and 



•Jn the way. This i> (nu ol the trucks which make the 

 seven-hundred-and-foity mile journey across country 



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