Word: odt
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...instead of 18 hogsheads of tobacco per car cut a tobacco shipper's requirements by 465 cars. By doubling the number of barrels of flour per car, a northwestern miller used 100 fewer cars. Less-than-carload-lot shipments under six tons have been entirely banned by ODT, cutting l.c.l. carloadings last month 251,950 below last years...
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...
...from inland yards, the Slocums hauled them east to tidewater, made that their principal business. Up to now their biggest headache has been the variety of State restrictions on size and length (TIME. April 6), for most of her loads are outsize and require special permits. ODT's new return-load restrictions are giving her a worse headache; for boats are her specialty, and boats nowadays are all moving towards tidewater, not away from...