60 BULLETIN 393, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
milk from Fort Covington to North Bangor over the old road, a dis- 
tance of 15 miles, was about 20 cents per can (120 pounds), or about 
$0.22 per ton-mile, hauling 25 cans at a load. After the roads were 
improved he was able to increase the load to 40 cans for a two-horse 
outfit on the macadam and gravel roads. This is at the rate of $0.125 
per ton-mile for a 15-mile haul, assuming the cost of team and driver 
to be $4.50 per day, which is slightly above the average for the 
county. (See Pl. XXIII, fig. 2.) 
In May, 1914, this man purchased an automobile truck with which 
to do his hauling. The truck cost $1,750, and it is now doing the 
work formerly done by three 2-horse outfits. (See Pl. XXIII, fig. 3.) 
It makes two trips a day from North Bangor to Fort Covington and — 
return, and also one trip a day to Westville, distance 74 miles; total 
distance traveled, 75 miles per day; distance loaded, 37.5 miles. 
The load consists of 50 cans of milk (120 pounds each), a total net 
load of 3 tons, or 112.5 ton-miles per day. The weight of the truck 
empty is 4,800 pounds. The estimated cost of operating this truck 
for 200 working days when roads are not covered with snow is given 
in Table 19. 
TABLE 19. 
irs eostoe LON GhUCK. 2522 PS. Ss 2 ee eee $1, 750. 00 
Fixed charges: 
bOReat. <2 228 i a PR oa ore eee eg ee en ee: $87.50 
WSEE AN COS 2 mpi SS ST pe cg eer eee Sea 85. 0C 
PRE VOR cot on So ee Sek oe ee See Re eee ee 500. 00 
Gamiaes AS ek Se ad a ee ee oan eee 50. 00 
722.50 
Operating charges: 
Depreciation. =... 2524 5-2. oe ee 8 ee 262. 50 
Gasoline 2 kos SL Pen SLA LSS RR ee eee 250. 00 
PRYOR ec oe Se oS a ek ee ee ee ae ae ee 400. 00 
Maintenance: (OfS 0 6 ue Sib eee Oe as ee ee ee 175. 00 
Gland erease:2 75) oe nS ae eee eee aan re eee 50. 00 
1, 187.50 
Rotal sac os oe tence oes Si eee 1, 860. 00 
The present cost per day, then, is $9.30, which for 112.5 ton-miles 
per day, or 22,500 ton miles in 200 days, makes the cost per ton-mile 
$0.0825. This man’s hauling costs would therefore appear to have 
been reduced by improved roads and the automobile truck as shown 
in Table 20. 
TABLE, 20. 
‘Horsesand wagon on old roads... - 2-1 -ah ee se ee ee eee $0. 22 
Foreesiand wacon.on new reads... <2. Sake op ee ke eee ea ee . 125 
Acomopile truck on new roads-. 20% =~ <2 2s ce ee eee eee . 0825 
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