SPEED LIMIT FOR TRUCKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

SPEED LIMIT FOR TRUCKS.

CITING INC CONDITIONS. There is an increasing tendency towards raising the spee ( d. limits on trucks equipped with. pneumatic tyres in all parts of England and America. This at first might seem like discrimination against solid tyres, but it is not, for pneumatics are. fast becoming universal on even the heaviest duty trucks. Recently published statistics (“Facts and Figures of the Automobile Industry”) by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce reveal that in 1929 nearly 3,400,090 truckfi were being used in the United States. In other words, there, is an average of one truck for every 36 persons in that country. What must be one of the largest truck Beets in the world is run by the Railway Express Agency, which operates 9,759, This concern is owned jointly by all the railway companies, which are also big truck and bus users. Nearly six thousand trucks are owned by .55 railway companies, American farmers have not been slow to appreciate the value of motor transport to their business, and over 767,009 trucks are owned by them.