MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



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TABLE No. 60 

 HAULING FROM RAILROAD PLATFORM TO MILK PLANT 



In Table No. 60 it appears that 54,072 quarts of the milk received 

 by the City of Rochester arrives by rail and is carried in trucks, handled 

 by 93 employees working 138.8 man hours, at the rate of 390 quarts per 

 man hour, and at a cost of .001134 per quart. This means that the annual 

 cost of trucking for the City of Rochester under present conditions is 

 $22,389.10. This represents the milk hauled from the railroad to the 

 numerous plants in the city which obtained their milk in this way. Under 

 the present system not only is this milk hauled from the railroad in the 

 trucks of the large dealers, but in the wagons of the numerous small 

 dealers who obtained their milk from the railroad. 



A study of the number of quarts per man hour in the above table 

 shows that two companies handle more than 1,000 quarts per man hour, 

 and two other companies between 900 and 1,000. One thousand quarts 

 of milk means only 25 40-quart cans, or 31 32-quart cans. This is not a 

 very heavy load for a medium size truck, and it seems reasonable to 

 believe that under a well organized trucking system one man could handle 

 at least 25 40-quart cans, or 31 32-quart cans per hour, from the rail- 

 road to the milk plant. On this assumption, using the average wage scale 

 for drivers performing, this work in the City of Rochester of .442 per 

 hour, the cost per quart under a centralized system would be .000442, and 

 the annual cost $8,723.44. This would mean a saving per quart of .000692, 

 and an annual saving of $13,665.66. 



