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Title: 'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.
Highway Transport Commitee, Council of National Defence, Bulletin 3

Author: US Government

Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19757]

Language: English

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AUGUST 1, 1918

BULLETIN NO. 3
(FOR SHIPPERS)

"RETURN LOADS"

TO INCREASE TRANSPORT RESOURCES BY AVOIDING
WASTE OF EMPTY VEHICLE RUNNING

HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.

[Illustration]

RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

"_The Council of National Defense approves the widest possible
use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests
the State Councils of Defense and other State authorities to
take all necessary steps to facilitate such means of
transportation, removing any regulations that tend to restrict
and discourage such use._"

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1918

COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, D.C.

HIGHWAYS TRANSPORTATION AS A WAR-TIME MEASURE ONE
OF THE SOLUTIONS OF THE SHIPPER'S
"SHORT-HAUL" PROBLEM.

To increase the highways transport resources as one of the means of
strengthening the entire transportation system of the country, and for
the purpose of avoiding the waste incurred by running transport
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