FARM MOTOR TRUCK OPERATION. 
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estimated that their machines traveled in the preceding year are 
shown in Figure 10. The average distance traveled in that year 
by all the trucks, according to these estimates, was 3,137 miles. The 
average distance traveled during the year by each of the different 
sizes of trucks, was as follows : 
Miles. 
i-ton trucks 3, 349 
1-ton trucks 4, 166 
1-ton trucks 2, 698 
li and li-ton trucks 3,001 
2-ton trucks 3, 599 
According to the reports the average distance traveled during 
the preceding year by trucks of each size was less than in 1919. 
This difference ranged from 281 miles for the 2-ton machines to 
387 miles for the 1-ton size. For all 
sizes the decrease averaged 381 miles. 
Each truck owner was asked to state 
the number of days on which his truck 
was used per year, the replies to be 
based not on the number of full day's 
work done, but to include all days on 
which some use was made of it. Two 
hundred and seventy-seven of the men 
reporting estimated the number of days 
on which some use was made of their 
machines during the preceding year, 
and the average of those estimates was 
147 days. The ^-ton machines were 
used on the greatest number of clays, 
and the 2-ton trucks on the smallest, 
the averages being 217 clays for the 
smaller and 105 days for the larger 
machines. 
In 1920, information of a similar 
nature was given by 275 truck owners. 
The average number of cla} T s in 1919 on which some use was made of 
their machines was 160. As in 1922, the J-ton trucks were used on 
the greatest number of days, and the 2-ton machines on the smallest, 
the averages being 215 and 123 days, respectively. 
The average distances traveled per day for the days the trucks of 
all sizes were actually used, based upon the replies given in the 
respective years, was 21.3 miles in 1922, and 21.9 miles in 1919. 
When the reports were grouped according to type of farming prac- 
ticed it was found that the trucks on the dairy and truck farms were 
used very nearly the same number of days, and traveled approxi- 
mately the same distance in 1922 as in 1919. A comparison of the 
use made of the trucks on the different types of farms showed that 
those on the dairy farms were used on the most days and those on 
the crop farms the fewest, the average days, and miles for these 
two types of farms according to the 1922 reports being 220 days 
and 3,309 miles for the trucks on the dairy farms, and 96 days and 
2,656 miles for those en the crop farms. Although the machines on 
the crop farms were not used on nearly as many days, nor did they 
cover as many miles in 1922 as in 1919, the number of miles run per 
Miles 1250 1251 3251 5251 7251 
per , or to to to or 
year Less 3250 5250 7250 Mors 
Fig. 10. — Percentage of motor truck's 
which travel different distances 
per year. 
