Word: truckmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...
...shipments whose tariff was at least 30? per 100 lb., the Eastern roads had offered free pick-up & delivery. They also offered shippers who handled their own pick-up or delivery a 5?-per-100 lb. discount. "Rebate!" screamed truckmen. After a month's cogitation, the I. C. C. decided in favor of the railroads, except for the rebate clause. When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended...
Four pleas and plans laid before four Interstate Commerce Commissioners last week by truckmen and railroaders sounded as if the U. S. railroad and trucking industries were either getting ready for a great consolidation feast or a grim competitive fight...
...Diamond-T is the fastest selling assembled truck. Stewart and Federal are both assembled. "Assembled" is a fighting word in the truck in- dustry because companies that machine most of their own parts look down their noses at the assemblers, terming their own product "manufactured." This incenses the "assembled" truckmen, for the reason that all motor vehicles-trucks, buses and passenger cars-are assembled to some degree. The three leading "manufactured" truck makers...
...excited to speak last week was Director Alfred H. Barr of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Ever since the founding of the Modern Museum six years ago and its liberal priming with Rockefeller funds, its loan exhibitions have been of more & more artistic significance. Last week perspiring truckmen trundled through its ornate marble doors the makings of possibly the most important show the institution has ever held-45 paintings and 46 drawings of the late great Vincent van Gogh. From U. S. museums and private collections Director Barr hopes to borrow almost as many more to round...