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Your Oct. 14 item, on the Interstate Commerce Commission's statement that Riss & Co.'s vehicles from 1951 through 1953 were involved in 1,200 accidents resulting in 51 deaths and 501 injuries, is accurate. How ever, statistics can be deceiving, and in this case they are just that. During those years our vehicles traveled 173,579,176 miles and our accident frequency for each 100,000 miles of driving was 1.24. Included are accidents involving dented fenders, and those in which our vehicles were legally parked and struck by another vehicle. It is not my purpose...
RICHARD R. Riss...
...TOUGH POLICY of ICC is starting to trip up accident-prone trucking lines. After threatening to ban six other truckers (TIME, Sept. 16), commission ordered one-year probation for Kansas City's big Riss & Co., whose 500-plus interstate trucks from 1951 to 1953 "were involved in 1,200 accidents resulting in shocking total of 51 deaths and 501 injuries." ICC's ultimatum: Riss must drastically improve safety record or be barred from highways...
...able to chop his trip costs so much that his profit margin quintupled. Eastern Motor Express, Cooper-Jarrett, Mid-States Freight Lines, Spector Freight System, and Denver Chicago Trucking Co. currently use piggyback for some 10% to 20% of all their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly by piggyback. As a result, the line has laid off some 1,000 of its original 1,350 drivers, is also planning to sell part of its 500-unit tractor fleet...
...Dick Riss has an unlimited faith in the future of trucking, because the population of the U.S. is increasing by 7,000 every day, and railroads are not expanding to meet the growing needs. Says he: "We've just begun to grow...