redweight for a van-type truck and a tank truck. The comparison is made 

 on the assumption of equal density of producers and size of pickup for both 

 trucks over a 100-mile trip for 100 gallons of milk. This shows an additional 

 5 to 6 cents per mile for the tank truck. Higher labor costs for the driver 

 presupposes that the additional responsibilities will require higher remuner- 

 ation if the preferred type of man is to be hired. 



Other Uses for Tank Truck 



Uses for the tank truck supplementary to the assembly of milk may lower 

 the unit cost of operation. The tank may be used as a holding tank by the 

 dealer in connection with the processing of milk. Particularly would this 

 be true if the plant operated on a six-day week. The tank may also be used 

 in cases of emergency to haul additional supplies during periods when local 

 production is inadequate to meet seasonal increases in demand or in periods 

 of flush production, and to haul excess supplies to manufacturing plants. The 

 full utilization of the driver's time at prevailing wage contracts, however, pre- 

 supposes that the assembly operation will make full use of the tank truck in 

 assembly. 



Dealers 



There were 753 retail milk dealers in New Hampshire in 1952.* The ma- 

 jority were producer-distributors selling amounts less than 300 quarts a day. 

 In contrast there were only 175 pasteurizing plants in operation, of which 

 131 sold less than an average of 1,000 quarts a day for the year. 



The remaining 44 pasteurizing plants handled increasingly larger quan- 

 tities of milk in their plants. Their proportion of the total milk processed 

 is considerably higher than their number is of all dealers, as shown in 

 Table 8. 



From this table it is apparent that a large number of the dealers handle 

 a small proportion of the total milk sales. This is important for any con- 

 sideration of tank-truck assembly. 



H we assume a minimum size tank of 500 gallons, then a dealer using 

 this form of assembly must process at least 4,300 pounds a day. This would 

 eliminate all but about 23 dealers under present average daily output, who 

 in turn handle at the most 30 percent of the total milk sold. 



What a Change-over Would Mean 



A change-over to bulk assembly of milk would enable a dealer to elimi- 

 nate the steam and labor costs of washing and sterilizing cans, and the re- 

 tinning and other costs of can purchase and maintenance. 



*Based on licenses issued by the New Hampshire Milk Control Board. 



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