this is the blood stream of on national lines from thirty miles away from across the river from one hundred miles in the valley from the railroad yard i'm not from two hundred miles across the mountains three hundred miles five hundred miles from the because the trucks keep rolling we are inclined to take them for granted forget the service they give but just suppose that for some malevolent reason in every city town and village all across the nation suppose the clocks miraculously many four million people this is just a handful of course just a few thousand perhaps you can visualize a hundred thousand people at a football game or some other great  but four million try to imagine and make greater than the entire population of the city of chicago if you can you have some appreciation of the number of wage earners who make their living keeping the wheels turning these with their families equal not on the combined population of chicago and new york one out of every eleven paychecks issued in the united states goes to a worker in the motor truck and allied industries to maintain their families to make and maintain the newsprint ready to be to the press and the news of the day delivered to the newsstand or your own dog some of them live a life of thrills and excite protecting property adding speed and power to the long arm of law and for bringing swift really then time of emergency in our complex modern civilization some spend our lives in back alleys patient drugs without glamour but very necessary and great construction projects run a giant express motorways and the rule by making neighbors of cities and towns and villages lawns widely separated a vast network of travel lotteries for everybody if you or everybody is  recent report to congress by honorable joseph b eastman former united states coordinator of transportation now chairman of the interstate commerce commission proved that during the period from nineteen twenty one to nineteen thirty seven motor vehicles as a whole including trucks and modern paid their full share of all highway and street costs this report showed that the average passenger car paid twenty six dollars annually in highway use taxes the average like truck for hi paid one hundred five dollars the average median truck for higher paid two hundred eighty two dollars the average had a truck higher paid four hundred three dollars the average hav truck with trailer for hire paid eight hundred thirty two dollars from other statistics we see that motor trucks represent only about thirteen percent of the total registration of highway users yet trucks pay twenty seven percent of all motor vehicle taxes let's look at it another way today trucks are paying three hundred fifty million dollars annually in registration fees fuel and othe canada to mexico and the state highway system and in addition pay more than one third of the total expense of construction of new roads and bridges and the reconstruction of all roads in our state highway systems besides all this and exclusive of their income and social security taxes trucks now contribute each year i put up two hundred million dollars to the general expenses of government probably they roll a lo and rightly so they pay their way and will comply with all the stringent local state and national regulations they do their job and well i want you to meet a good american a gentleman of the highway a man who knows his job and does it proudly and well and representative of hundreds of thousands of expert truck drivers throughout the nation where been especially qualified and trained for that vital job so every driver trained as these men have been has had to pass a physical examination as rigid as the medical examination given for life insurance mentally and physically he must be qualified to meet the exacting standards of this new industry pro continual fitness must be on file at all times at his headquarters more than that he must know all the safety regulations watch the maximum number of hours you can drive then you are not alone on waiting you go right on cabin i know how to use it to individuals in trouble help them out why not all running on the same road i help you tonight tomorrow night you might help me for instance well a couple of nights ago i was sailing along i was pretty well ahead of the ticket the schedule that is and i was taking it easy when i see a flat light blinking at me from the side of the road i figured someone in trouble was flagging me down sure enough down the road a ways i find this nothing phil and i pulled him back on the road and saved him a long walk about a long way and it didn't take me five minutes but as of a five years before he forgets what his wife called him if you have a quit what are the rules that regulate your driving well outside of the local and state regulations there is this the other state regulation you know them i better or else every motor carrier and his employer is concerned with the transportation of present a property by any motor vehicle as i comply with the following regulations  and you better know and i thought all of them try and catch me on a truck inspected before and after every trip that is in respect to the condition of the trailer connections and things like that and of course there's a regular inspection of the whole driving mean jeez you're driving for me and as you imply and pay attention to this report sure it's just good business keep your truck in tip top shape you get better service out of it maintain schedule and save money spend a buck a day on maintenance save ten bucks tomo repair it just one last question how does the operating condition of your chop when out of the average passenger car you meet on the road well let's just skip that one i don't want to mundus thrilling to see but not nearly fast enough to keep pace with modern tech today in a fraction of the time that once was required to get the old style division started the new triangular divisions are moving underway with this new motorized efficiency the trucks barrel the birds and the motorized army everybody everything right and these great carriers have unlimited cross country ability they service all our national defense needs