Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-14
Three Route Daily
Truck Service Will
Operate Out of City

Fifty per cent Of all /perishable
arm produce ''raised in the United
States, never sees a, market; most of It
'!ots on the ground where It is raised.
or u = used as feed when a cheaper
40 aDst1tIts could DO raised" This is
new Secretary of Commerce. In a
recent statement Mr.. Hoover said that
transportation facilities
"oulo provide a market for the larger
\ part OF this produce, and the district
ABOUT Grand Forks, both in North
81 pakota and Minnesota. will soon be
provided with a daily truck service
\ efs many thousands Of dollars yearly.
Start in April.
A three route truck service will
start operations, out of Grand Forks,
ssabout April Is, one route. going into
M1nneso another north to Grafton
MEnd Park River and a third south to
The Motor Truck Express
Eaacompany. Of which Carl O. Haugen
INC kenneth P. Caldwell are the back
sSASSRrs, has assurance tina each Of the
routes will have capacity loads
s5SeAAily out Of the city. To\the smaller
gowns which they will reach, they are
S~ggxMepending on working up trade with
sssSSlne arme in hauling to town, stock,
warden truck, eggs, butter. cream,
s9asPnoultry and similar produce. A num-
of instances are cited by farmers
.ssssWlhom the truck route will reach,
FM@showing where they will be benefited.
s4S!n one instance a farmer told Of hav-
Sss9png a couple Of gallons Of cream a
sst ~ Which was wasted. merely because
w did not pay to make a special trip
$aSFto town with it, while If the truck
y route passes his farm or near his
farm, he can have it hauled econom-
8gacally n not only make money but
9shelp the market. A member of the
River Falls Commercial club
}@SSdurlng a meeting which Mr.. Caldwell
SbAddressed, told Of a farmer who had
ffSseveral acres of tomatoes last fall.
when the market was high. who was
asurable to market them because he
Rcould not transport them to town at
Hs Aprcht, as he will be able to do under
81 the truck route system. Small ship
L ments of took will be handled by the
trucks, but n days notice must be
given. This will enable farmers to
f@Ghlp one or two head of stock to the
packing plant without making a trip
to town especially for this purpose.
Truck routes. are no new thing in
Z the United States. They have been
tried out and found successful in the
: Eastern states, and while there are
few i'll ,the great Northwest, others
f&lll un0OuDtedly lOllOW the local plan.
Short hauls will. of course, derive the
8 most benefit, but
u Possibilities of long distance haul
age Of farm products were demon
strated last Starch by a trial trip
made by the Pestofice Department
from Lancaster. Pa, to New York.
$50 miles. \ s,c0o-pound truck left
Lancaster about 6 o'clock in thu
morning and arrived in New York
about twelve hours ater. Part Of its
load consiSt~' opl"oo dav-o'd chicks
York only iour of the chicks were
dead and only nine eggs broken. The
Xsame DAY IS cases of eggs were
Whipped by express to the same con-
asssseisnee. and thousands OF eggs were
smashed when ~un}oaded in Jersey
III City. In the first case tina sloipmen,
/ was delivered at the consignce's store
on the day of SHIPMENT: in the secont
c"@n The cHn i.ncc was reGuir d Il
son! his truck 10 Jersey City fer the
shiDnf@"t Ill" nfHt day. The shiprcl
Fad previous q inns against the rail.
read a~sgrcga;ing $500 for breakage