Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-27
MOTOR TRUCK LINE To
HAUL FREIGHT DOWN
AND Up THE STATE
Also Between Wilmington and
Points on Eastern Shore
and in Virginia.
TO AID LOCAL TRkDESmEN

Auto trucks viii carry ali kinds Of
supplies and merchandise q down
state merchants. those on the Eastern
shore Of Marylhnd ard upper Virginia.
in very short time. II plans gnsGe py
the trade and transportation committee
of the wholesalers section Of the
Chamber Of Commerce succeed Il is
proposed 70 send the supplies and mer-
chandise direct 20 the store " each
merchant. and on The return trip TO
this city bring hack whatever freight
possibly produce. that the merchants
had 70 ship here
Whether the trucks viii be operated
Independently by each wholesaler and
dealer here shipping 70 peninsula pat
rons. or the autos viii be directed by
a central CO. operative organization Or
dealers is one of tho plans yet to i,e
worked out and decided upon The
peninsula Tatrch hauts are willing. Il was
reported AZ a meeting held 70 discuss
the proposition yostedray afternoon. 20
pay more than ordinary freight charges
for the blR accom- .atidatton - would ~
10 them They can bc assured 81 whon
the freight w1ll reach them. certain
days being named sJuJ will no1 have TO
bother with hauling the stun frotn "a
railroad station a. their store pro
tecting them from losses that might
occur from many persons handing tine
goods.
This solution of the transportation
Of goods ia Peninsula dealers u Is be-
lIeved. viii go = long WAY to meet the
competition ri Baltimore ana t'hisB-
delphia nero hants. who have adopted
the method II truck transportation AS
being the most convenient 40 them
selves and their patrons. u j. ONE ~
the things that has initiated most
strongly against Wilmington wholesal~
ers in the past few years and caused
many of them to lose very respectable
amount Of business
Good Roads Help.
with the building Of new highways
throughout Delaware. the dealers Will
not te confronted with delays and ac-
.idcnts to trucks. breaking down and
getting nlired in bad roads during tho
stormy PERIODS Of the year as was once
the trouble. AS result II tho meeting
like a symposium held between the
members Of the State Highway Com
mission at Dover, yesterday ia
which the commission placed the
responsibility for a new appropri-
alton 10 carry on road building
up TO each particular community.
it Is very likely that substan-
tial new appropriations for new road
work will be made by the Legislature.
one bill for $250,0O0 yearly for two
years has been introduced into the
General Assembly and viii be sup
ported by those sections Of Delaware
that have not already benefited by
modern high ways
The main line Of highways through
the Eastern Shore are modern and kept
in good repair, so that O wholesaler or
wilmington can. il is believed, guaran-
tee to his patrons shipments OF goods
two. perhaps three times each week,
as the. demand for the freight warrants.
With the advent of the truck route,
Wholesale houses here are planning 20
make a big drive not only 10 regain
their old business customers, but new
ones, whom they have been unable TO
touch because they could not guaran-
tee deliveries. Many Of the dealers have
tentatively trapped out selling cam
paigns and are preparing to take ad-
vantage from the beginning Of the
now trnnsportrti lion scheme OF the DnHi-
ness field afforded them.