EXPERIENCE WITH MOTOR TRUCKS. 
Table XIII. — Price received for custom work 
Material. 
Crops 
Live stock 
Building material 
Fuel 
Other 
Number 
Price per 
ofreports. 
ton-mile. 
103 
•10.38 
119 
.46 
22 
.38 
30 
.32 
46 
.53 
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF ROADS ON USE OF TRUCKS. 
It has been shown that the majority of these farmers considered 
poor roads the greatest disadvantage in the use of a motor truck, and 
that most of those who still use horses for part of their road hauling 
do so because of poor roads. In order to gain a more definite idea 
of the effect of the kind of roads on the use of motor trucks each 
farmer was asked to specify the kinds of roads over which his truck 
traveled and the number of weeks during the past year the roads 
had been in such condition on account of mud, snow, ice, or frost that 
the truck could not be used. 
All kinds of roads, from unimproved dirt roads to high-class 
highways, were reported. However, 80 per cent of the men who 
reported on this point stated that their trucks ordinarily travel only 
on dirt roads, and 14 per cent stated that the roads which they ordi- 
narily use are part dirt and part improved, and the remainder stated 
that they have only improved roads, either gravel, macadam, or 
better. 
On the average there were 8.4 weeks during the year when the 
trucks could not be used, and only about 6 per cent of the men re- 
ported that they were able to use their trucks every week. The men 
whose trucks usually travel on improved roads only, however, were 
prevented from using them but five weeks during the year, and over 
one-fourth were able to use them every week. 
The reports indicate that poor roads are not such a great handicap 
to pneumatic-tired trucks as to those equipped with solid tires. 
Table XIV shows the average number of weeks per year trucks with 
different kinds of tires on roads which are all or part dirt could 
not be used. 
Table XIV. — Effect of Hind of tires on length of time trucks could not be used 
on roads which are all or part dirt. 
Kind of tires. 
Number 
reporting. 
Average 
number 
of weeks 
trucks 
could not 
be used. 
Pneumatic 
Solid 
152 
211 
6.6 
9.4 
9.1 
Pneumatic in front, solid in rear 
338 
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