Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-02
TRA|LERS HELP IN
HAULING ECONOMY
Trucks and Tractors Will Also
Be Used to Relieve Con-
gested Railroads.

1.-THE recent decision or the National
Council of Defense that motor trucks
be used instead of the railroads in the
transportation of freight for distances
up to two hundred miles has served
to emphasize the superiority of this
method for short hauls. and, further,
to direct attention to the advantages
of trailer equipment" said Henry M.
Glen, president of the Glen Motor
| Truck corporation.
| MANY corporations and individuals
are Just waking up to the fact that
they have been permitting frightful
waste of power thru operating their
motor trucks and tractors without
trailers-a fact which has special sig
nificance these days, when efficiency
and economy count for so much.
"In all kinds Of transport work
where tractors and trucks are used
trailers are coming to be regarded as
an absolute necessity. In order to
utilize the full capacity and pulling
power of tractor 1t is necessary to
use from three to eight trailers back
OF it. and on good roads truck can.
without any excessive strain handle
at least one trailer loaded in addi-
while the trailer industry is still
in its infancy in this country, in Eng
land. France Germany and Italy trail
ers were used in large numbers prior
to the war, and the war has greatly
increased the demand. Truck owners
abroad have found that under fair
operating condition they can double
the earning power of the truck by at
taching one trailer, delivering double
the amount of material In a given
time without any increase in operating
expense. Up to three or four years
ago this custom was little known in
the United States.
Industry Is I'm Its Infancy.
"The tractor industry is in about
the same stage of development that
the automobile truck industry was in
ten years ago. But even at this stage
the demand for trallers is greater
than the supply. Nowadays there is
hardly even a tractor sold without
from two to thirty trailers being pur-
chased the number depending upon
the operation and the class OF work
on which the tractor Is to be used.
II predict that within n very few
years certain streets will be laid out
in every large city in this country on
which trucks with trains OF trailers
will be operated for the transport of
freight and material OF all kinds. And,
as is now the practice in foreign
countries, truck trains of trailers will
be used in the country districts for
moving produce, grain and other sup
plies from the farms to the railroads.
serving as branch line feeders to the
railroads.
"In the contracting field trailers
have been used more or less extern
sively for several years, but not to
anything like the extent they will be
used In the future. Horses, as we'll as
human labor, have become so scarce
and high priced that a contractor, In
order to handle his materials proflta-
bly,, must turn to the tractor and trail
er.
Farmers In the west and In Cana
da who can take only comparatively |
small load back of a team Of horses,
and are obliged to drive twenty or
twenty-five miles to some shipping
point, require a large number Of men !
and teams to deliver all their products
at the time such products bring the |
best prices, and to have the necessary
men and teams means that they must !
carry both men and animals, as we'll /
as feed them, during the many weeks !
In which they have no use for them.
Just now these trailers are in great
demand In Europe for the transporta-
ton Of army supplies. Many Glen
trailers are being used behind Lom- |
bard caterpiller tractors, as we'll as
other tractors and motor trucks. by
two Of the allied powers. They have |
proved s9 successful that the govern