Word: odt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They need new equipment already. But there are less than 15,000 new trucks to be rationed, and Lend-Lease will get a share of those. Only hope for trucks is to make their present equipment last. Said ODT's Joe Eastman last week: "In some way and somehow, we must keep these vehicles in service for essential purposes for the duration . . . and protect and preserve the rubber tires on hand, which constitute the most precious stockpile that our country possesses...
...that end ODT's General Order No. 3 goes into effect next week. No commercial truck (with certain exceptions) can leave on any trip unless it is fully loaded, nor can it head home again less than 75% loaded. The truckers are now setting up regional committees to pool equipment and freight, maximize loads per truck in both directions. The number of trips on certain routes will be cut. By such cooperation, and with the greatest attention to maintenance, highway operators grimly aim to get a million miles of life out of each truck, 125,000 miles (with recapping...
...ODT trucking regulations were an awful blow to a pretty, 33-year-old redhead from Detroit named Helen Slocum. If no trucks can come home less than 75% loaded, what will happen to the specialized operators (beer, ice cream, etc.) whose equipment is designed for one-way delivery? Helen is such a case. Her specialty is so important that an exception may be made. An off-center Alger heroine, she delivers Navy boats...
Biggest newspaper problem of the moment, however, is ODT's order, effective June 1, that newspapers limit local deliveries to one a day, in order to save rubber and gasoline. In big cities, where newsstands account for a majority of circulation, publishers have complained that one edition a day would ruin them. They suggest pooling trucks, abolishing "returns," printing fewer editions but more than one. They claim their plan would' save more mileage than the Government...
...waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...