The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-08
BILLS
Are INIMICAL
TO. TRUCKING
That Is Argument Of Truck
Owners at House Com
mittee Hearing
The 'rimes-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, Feb, S.-Passage OF
either or both of the bills intro
duced by the ''Newman-Murphy-
Young" railroad bloc i'll the
house would virtually wipe out
the truck industry in North Caro-
lima, representatives of the North
Carolina Truck Owners associa-
ton and other truck interests
told the house judiciary commit
tee No. / yesterday. afternoon.
One of the bills limits the We.
hicles to a combined weight OF
both truck and load not exceed
ing 10000 pounds, and limits
trailers to a gross weight OF TO-
600 pounds, and, according to
the bus interests. would bar more
than, half the number Of trucks
now operating in the state from
travelling over the highways.
Other restrictions and regula-
tons placed on trucks, opponents
of the measure, pointed out, would
keep all trucks off the highways
except. those used in agriculture,
and small trucks used by corp
orations. In the case of the lat
ter, the trucks would be allowed
to operate only within a radius
of three miles of the place of the
corporations business.
Enactment of this legislation,
the truck representatives said
would at the outset incur a loss
of ,s2,5OO,OOO in revenue to the
State of North Carolina. The
bill would: also compel. the trucks
to charge for hauling freight on
the same rates that the railroads
now levy, Sd. the committee was
told.
Another measure introduced by
Representatives Newman, Muir
ply and Young would put the
trucks under the supervision of
the corporation commission and
would sock a $40 permit charge
On each carrier, the permit to be
renewed. 1t also pro-
nibits any driver from being on
duty. more than. II hours at a
and each carrier would
be compelled, to file $1,000 bond
with the commission. The COM
is empowered to require
n it's discretion a bond as high
as $4,000.
Either of these bills, the truck
interests maintained, would not
only be a death blow to the regu-
ar highway carriers, but would
also be an unbearable hardship.
On independently-owned trucks.
They would, among other things,
prohibit, many, rayon plants from
delivering rush orders to the
and middle western mar
Sets, the truck people said.
While trucks operated by farm
ers are exempted from most of
he regulations, it was pointed
out, passage of the Bills would
'uin the truck farmers of East
ern North , Carolina who deliver
great quantities of their produce
20 New York. and other eastern
markets by regular highway car
'iers. Most of the Eastern
North Carolina truck farmers do
not own their own vehicles, it
vas pointed out, but employ reg
liar carrier systems to haul
heir vegetables and fruits to
market.
The development of the truck
farming industry in the eastern
part of the state was made pos
Sible only by good roads and the
sudden rise of the highway sys-
sem of transportation, the COM
mittee was told, since the farm
ers had been unable TO get their
produce to market overnight be-
fore the highway carriers became
accessible.
The truck interests branded
the bills as another effort of the
railroads. to put the trucks out of
business and pointed out that
any curtailment of highway
transportation in North Carolina
would be detrimental to the eco
1omic welfare of the state, since
the state collects large part of
Its@sgasoiine" and license taxes.
from the highway carriers.