Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-27
RURAL MOTOR FREIGHT
SERVICE IS PLANNED
Trunk Lines to Bring i'm ,prot,uce
From Counties Surround
ing Richmond.
CONFERENCE is HELD HERE
hetH'l Merchants Cooperate in Plan
TO Have Returning Trucks De-
liver Goods Into Rural Districts,
Thus Providing Load Each Wny.

! hural motor freight and cypress
service between this city and the couu.
yes or Hanover. Fowhatnn. Henrico.
| ''occh'and and Chesterfield is tho
latest attempt of the highway trans
port committee OF the state Co,ncl of
Defense to relieve the TRANSFORMATION
congestion that prevails as a result
OF tn" war emergency service +, m.
fcderai government. The second nicer
ing f"!d IN Richmond respoc.in. ,bis
project was in the Chamber of Com.
mercc Building yesterday morning
wh"n ~. L. com!nEs indire.,. repre-
sentative of the Highway transncri
committee of the National CounciI or
i,efensc; {. :. Mullen. representative
OF George i. Coleman. chairman of
inc highways transport committee or
me virginia Council Of Defense. W. :
Niarkr. Jr.. representative or the Re
IAN Merchants Association of ,;;rI,
mond: nr FERGUSON. OF the Southern
Plan eE,-C. II. Euchcr. of the Di"i.inn
OF MARKETS and the county agent OF
rach "i me i've counties surrounding
IRIS city. met TO continue the promui
cation OF plans for the truck s.ryic,.
Iht third meeting has been yet for
saturday. August 3. Thi., meeting is
nj tho nature Of an advance before tne
COMMITTEES of county agents attend tho
next meeting Of the Farmers IrA:i-
tute. at the Virginia Polytcchric ~,
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PLAN TO CONSERVE
FOoDsTUFFS AND I.AHoR
The object Of this in-and out bound
'rurN service IS to conserve foodstuns
and labor and to supply rural trans
!"r'atior. The National Council os
Defense approves the widest possible
use OF the motor truck as a tanSp,r.
thtion agency, and has rcqu, st.d tnc
state councils and other State a.orcics
10 take all necessary steps to fac;li-
tate such ,lcans of Transportation
The Federal food administration ma,
also approved this plan of inc-.axin.
tho volume OF foodstufTs hauled, nf
encouraging loca! food production ard
of aiding in the solution Of trarspor.
tatlon problems. Tho scheme is al
ready at work IN many vi:tritie.
spec ifically. tn, .dea Is to MAKE,
Rlchn"n! model Of such transror-
tation CeEters. with the hope that Nor
folk. Roanoke. panville. Lynchburc.
Newport News and Ill other cities and
large towns in the Sta;e viii, cony ,f-
tor It The committee of county
agents named at the meeting ycSler-
day viii Immediately work out the de-
tails OF tic service. II Is expected hat
Individuals viii undertake this indus.
Try. and operate private trucks. rho
trucks will run on schedule rs do
rural free delivery wagons. bringing
into Richmond produce. II is expected
that plans Will be worked out Tor the
cooperation of tie farmers with .hu
retailers and wholesalers of the r;tv
for ,he delivery of goods into rural
dtstrirtS IS Well as the delivery of
produce into the city.
c II. Euchcr. of the Division II Mar
N"ts. and G. : Mullen. Of the state
Highway Commission. and many otEe'S
interested. are enthusiastic over tn"
prospect of this truck transport SER
vie" in the neiEhhoring rural districts.
and think tina, Il may 5o the foe
runner OF permanent public utility.