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Title: The Rural Motor Express
Highway Transport Commitee Council of National Defence, Bulletins No. 2

Author: US Government

Release Date: November 13, 2006 [EBook #19799]

Language: English

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BULLETIN NO. 2

MAY, 1918

THE RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS

TO CONSERVE FOODSTUFFS AND LABOR AND
TO SUPPLY RURAL TRANSPORTATION

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

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COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

THE RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS.

The transportation burden on the railroads and highways of the country
has been tremendously increased by the war. There is a larger load to be
carried, of manufactured goods, raw materials, and foodstuffs. Not only
has production of manufactures, raw materials, and farm products
increased, but it is now necessary to transport a much larger proportion
of these goods over long distances.

The burden is further increased by the fact that we have removed across
the sea, 3,000 miles away, a considerable part of our population, which
must be provisioned and maintained. These men were in our Army camps
last winter. This year