Arizona republican., 1919-07-06
MOTOR TRUCKS SAVE GREAT SUMS YEARLY
 IN RAPID DELIVERY

Have you ever noticed that jam of trucks and cars on the busiest streets As generally caused by horse drawH vehicles" says c. H. Reuben of the Reuben Auto company, local Kis- seL(distributors.
 T understand that statisticians who have made a study of traffic conditions in our principal cities for the purpose Of eliminating congestion, estimate that horse drawn vehicles cost the country hundreds of thousands of dol lars in delayed delivery schedules re- suiting in missing shipping dates.
 Thus when a manufacturers load of merchandise is held up, the whole Saler or jobber to whom the consign- ment of goods is scheduled, is held up ir receiving it, which in turn makes il necessary for the wholesaler to dis appoint the retailer who again in turn eannot supply the goods to his cus- toners.
 Today, when uninterrupted trans portation is an absolute necessity, when the different industries are called up- on to work full force to make up the time lost in the last two years, it is to the advantage of the nation as whole to eliminate these delays.
 "To do this a great many cities in different parts of the country have laid plans to separate streets for horse-drawn equipment so that traffic jams can be reduced to a minimum. This can be accomplished in several different ways. For instance, the busi. ness streets running parallel can be divided off, one for motor driven ve- hicles to be driven in one direction. Uh i1a vehicles can return without interfering with the flow toward the point they are leaving. Then one half the next street can be devoted entirely to hors- drawn vehicles gonig in one direction, while the other half can. be devoted to horse drawn vehicles returning.
 If we are to continue using horse drawn vehicles I believe it would be advisable for both the railroads and steamship companies to build separate 1 shipping platforms. If this is done it would be only a short time before l owners of horse drawn vehicles would realize the immense amount of waste this means of transportation is caus- ing them. They could not help but notice how their competitors using motor driven vehicles were delivering two and three times as many loads as they were at practically the same cost. if not slightly under it. This would not be the only result. The horse driven vehicle owners could not i compete in the matter of wholesale prices with the owners of the motor 1 driven vehicles at the same expendi- | ture of time and money. It would i take an owner three times as long to I deliver his goods as his competitor, costing him just three times as much i to deliver his goods. Thus his com- petitor could afford to sell his goods l at lower price than if he had to spend the same money on a slower means of transportation
 Again referring to this matter of receiving and discharging loads for shipment A motor truck can be 1 backed into space that is just slightly l wider than the truck itself. There is
 no difficulty in doing this if the driver i is expert and he can do it in a very
 short space of time. But take this
 same space with horse drawn ve-
 hicle trying to back into it. It is g
 matter of saving back and forth anc
 if he has a particularly heavy loat
 it is almost impossible for a horse tC
 guide it. Again he may have two ol
 three horses which makes it all tn,
 more difficult to handle them withou
 interfering with traffic going in eithel
 direction in front of them