Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-17
MOTOR TRUCKS In
FREIGHT TRAFFIC
self-Propeled Wagons Make COmmun-
ication Easy to South Omaha
and the Suburbs.
NUMBER IS INCREASING FAST
Business in Its Infancy, Spreading in
Proportion.
BIG CARS THAT DO BUSINESS
Little Ones Plenty and Delivery il
Made Easy.
IMPLEMENT HOUSES CONCERNED
Big institutions that Deal in thS
Cars of Commerce Take Cars
of the Growing Trade
in style.
IMPLEMENT HOUSES CoNCERNE

Long distances to be covered In the COM
mercial business Of the city with the towns
hereabout have educated all the larger con-
Germs into the use of motor trucks The
education has been a development of three
short years and the results are gratifying
in the guise Of forty mine commercial vehi-
Giles seen daily on the streets.
The Storz Brewing company is conceded
to be the first local concern to adopt the
most modern means of delivering it's prod
uct. This company purchased a huge car
three years ago and its example was
quickly followed by the other breweries,
several diaries, furniture establishments
and ice companies.
Despite the presence Of steep and fire.
quent bills throughout the city and sub
urbs, the vehicles have made good to the
extent that seven times the amount Of
hauling Is done by them than that for
merly accomplished by horse drawn vehi-
cles.
One large establishment, doing business In
all the suburbs and adjoining towns, re-
ports that from SIC to 500 daily is saved
in the expense OF it's delivery work since
the adoption of motor trucks.
Omaha " just now confronting a general
rehabilitation of road conditions. The paw
ing of the streets in the city proper at
present Is in bad shape and is further
rendered unsatisfactory by reason of the
widespread work OF repaying which Is go
ing on. 1t is the prospect that the entire
central portion of the city will be COM
pletely repaved inside of several months.
Large and Small Wagons.
There are two distinct classes Of motor
wagons in use in the city, roughly COM
prising the heavy kind as one and the
smaller retail delivery wagons as the other.
II Is q notable fact that grocers, bakeries
and all the tribes Of small dealers are
falling into line with the general modern
izing trend. In all cases the change from
the use Of horse drawn vehicles to motors
has been an easy one.
Teamsters, formerly the elevated lords of
brewery and Ice wagons. are now easy liv-
ing chauffeurs of their monster new trucks
Accepting the innovation with ready skill,
the reinsmen find their new problems In
finitely simpler than the troubles of balk-
ing, runaway animals of former times.
This situation is also true of the delivery
boys of the small dealers Altogether
motor vehicles in the citys commerce have
a happy outlook
Capacity ranging from one to three tons
is that favored in heavy motor trucks by
the local users 1t is reported that with
a machine Of proven twenty horsepower
thirty horsepower can be developed.
Storz's three-ton thirty-two horsepower
machine is the largest machine OF its kind
in the city.
One ice hauling motor truck of Omaha
accomplishes the following work every day:
Three trips to South Omaha, two trips to
Benson, three trips to Durdee and one
trip to Council Bluffs. The adjoining towns
mentioned are reached by travelling from
three to six miles, respectively. South
Omaha represents a trip Of four miles,
Benson is six miles distant, Dundee is four
miles away and Council Bluffs is four
miles from Omaha 1t is seen from this
that the ice carrying motor truck covers
nearly forty-five miles each day