Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-23
MOTOR TRUCK HEAD ANSWERS CHARGES
THAT TRUCKS ARE mot DEPENDABLE

Just how imSortant motor truck
transportation is becoming to this
country has perhaps never been more
forclbly demonstrated than In a news
paper article, to which my attention
has been called, pointing out clearly
that motor truck freight carriers are
cutting so deeply into the business of
railways all over the country that the
railroads are, in some cases, fighting
the advance of the motor truck" said
IL A, Williams, president of the Car
ford Motor Truck company, recently.
For example," Mr.. Williams contin-
ued, "a recent article in California
speaks of an application for a motor
truck franchise between Oakland and
San Jose having been made by G. T..
Neeson and A c. Woodward After the
application had been made, the article
said Edward Entelman, assistant SUI
perintendent for the Railroad Admin
1stration, characterized the motor truck
lines as robbers of the highway" and
mot dependable" and said they failed
to observe schedules. He charged also
that when inclement weather comes
the trucks rmain in the garages, ac-
cording to the newspaper article.
COMPARISON INTERESTING.
in these days when motor truck
traffic between cities all over the Unit
ed States is growing so rapidly, this
view OF the situation is rather interest
ing. In the east motor truck trains
make their daily schedule and handle
the material, it has been estimated, in
fifth of the time it takes for the
railroads to handle similar material
The trucks handle It with not only a
greater dispatch, but with less break
age.
There are a number of truck trains
operating out of Chicago, Detroit, Gin
cinnati and large centers throughout
the country. They are not only prov
ing of inestimable value to the people
of those communities because of quick,
prompt service, but they are reaching
out into territory which is enabling
farmers to handle their produce and
get it to market with much less dan
ger of spoilage. In fact they are
making possible the marketing of pro-
duce which heretofore, because of the
lack of transportation, has been al
lowed to rot on the ground. We re-
ceive daily reports of truck trains that
are doing their share in reducing the
high cost of living.
NOTHING CAN STOP ".
But the important phase of the sit
nation is that motor truck transpor-
tation has grown to be such force
that it is attracting he attention OF
officials of the big railroad system
such as the Southern Pacific, which Is
the railroad concerned in the newspa-
per article saw. 1t simply shows that
motor truck transportation has arrived
and that nothing can stop 1t. In fact
in this great country which Is grow
ing so rapidly that industry is put to
the test to keep ace with 1t. the mo-
tor truck is the one solution to the
transportation problem involved in
THE recent transcontinental tour OF
products. Nothing can stop it.
IT can give instance after instance
where the motor truck is proving OF
great benefit and success in inter-city
hauling. The question now is the pro-
duction of motor trucks fast enough
to care for this growing business.
"The recent transcontinental tour Of
trucks from Washington to San Fran
cisco under the auspices of the govern
ment showed definitely that motor
trucks can transport loads without de-