San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
DIOR TRUCK
F GREAT USE
N MANY WAYS
d Tells Yale Students
bf Growth Of Motor
transportation.
fFUL ON FARMS
cks Employed to Great
dvantage in Business
and Industry.

Nv York, Feb. 24.-Addressing
Students in the transportation
of Yale University today, +.
Tenn, secretary of the National
truck committee Of the National
Mobile Chamber of Commerce,
ed out the diversified fields in
motor transportation is active
gagged. -, r /.
efiy reviewing the history Of
portation, Mr.. Fem said:
he development of transportation
passed through many successive
5, including the now famous
lie schooner and stage coach
DIS. until today we find over
900 motor trucks transporting
billy approximately 1,430, 600, 900
of freight, including 1874, 1000
of farm products.
part of these trucks are bring
as you see. into Cincinnati ~
ent of its daily milk supply; into
las City 40 per cent of its sup
into Atlanta 90 per cent, and
napolis so per cent. This pro-
ced tendency toward truck ship.
of milk is having a beneficial
in that n lower acidity test for
is made possible and the churn-
{ milk en- route eliminated where
lined tanks are used, ...
Helps i'm Other Ways.
b the corn, wheat and cotton re-
another portion of these trucks
aking it possible for the farmer
avel 25 per cent longer distance
1873 per cent more round trips;
As per cent more corn, 90 per
more wheat and So per cent more
n than horse-drawn vehicles, at
err cent, 80 per cent and 81 per
of the ton-mile cost Of wagon
I'D corn, wheat and cotton, re-
lively. ~.
Ne would further find on investi.
n that still another division OF
trucks helped to bring into the
sas City stockyards alone, last
16.400 cattle, $4,000 calves
boo hogs, 5000 sheep and S9It
IS and mules. Large numbers Of
took are being brought in from
countryside by truck daily at tht
stockyards at Omaha, De'
hes, and Sioux City. This live
movement by truck is making i
ble for the small farmer TO shlI
Wv head Of cattle, or hogs as tn
may be, when the market suit
aGd to avoid shrinkage OF stool
oute to market. - j.
Formerly. livestock was driven t
yards with a lowering of marke
due to shrinkage. 1t is not sur
ne to find, therefore. that of Sd
belt farmers interviewed 81 pc
of them expressed the opinion
their truck would turn out to b.
3itable investments.
Useful I'm Oil Fields.
Equally important influence is be
exerted by the truck in the in
rial field. Seventy-five per cen
line work in the Texas and. Okla
a oil fields is carried on by mean
pecially designed truck and traile
2binations. e
mere Is UO quSSliOh Oub thuS -
|br truck is a very important par
he operators equipment in tn
|iuctiop Of petroleum. The impres
sizes to which the truck fleets Q
e of the largest oil companies il
world have grown during the las
years is a striking confirmation o
assumption. With the CROWN
hnsion in the utilization of petro
A. as witnessed in the development
as oil for the manufacture of gas
/ the increasing demand for fue
Bthere is certain to come a large
Slopment of motorized service i
d petroleum fields.
approximately 10 per cent Of tn
Sber. lead and zinc mining operator
under the necessity at the presen
of transporting both their prod
and supplies to and from thei
IN supply stores in trucks, mas
Eh as the tonnage shipped fror