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1760 Packard Trucks Show How to Attain Efficiency Urged
by Council of National Defense and War Industries Board
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OR four years now, War conditions have
forced the industrial man to think about his
transportation largely in terms of the motor
truck. Out of his experience two under
lying questions have been brought sharply
to the attention of every truck user:
What ought! to expect my truck to do for me?
What ought this service to cost me ?
AH lines of business are vitally interested today in
making every motor truck move more freight, thereby
relieving the burden on the railroads
Every business realizes the necessity for an accurate
and complete cost system, and a standardized method
of accounting, which will serve as a permanent record
of operation and maintenance
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In fullest co-operation with the efforts of the National
Council of Defense and the War Industries Board to
save freight cars for urgent Government service the
Packard Motor Car Company announced on June 1st
last the opening of the National Truck Efficiency Test
This National Test was planned to do three things :
To interest all truck owners and drivers in the
campaign of the National Council of Defense and the
War Industries Board for higher efficiency of motor
truck transportation and the use of motor transporta
tion wherever possible to relieve the congestion of the
railroads.
To demonstrate on the road the practical methods to
attain higher efficiency in motor truck transportation.
To show how costs of motor operation may be found
exactly, and the advantages of recording these costs
regularly and in detail on the standardized forms of
the National Standard Truck Cost System, as perfected
by the Truck Owners' Conference.
Prizes amounting to $5025.00 in cash were an
nouncedtobe awarded to owners and drivers of Packard
Trucks who established efficiency records on the items
of outgoing and return loads; the state of the roads; time
required to cover the route; low cost per ton-mile in
gasoline, in tires, in oil; in maintenance cost, and the
condition of the truck at the end of the test.
Seventeen hundred and sixty Packard Trucks carried
out the conditions of the test and turned in their de
tailed records, on forms of the National Standard
Truck Cost System the one system which keeps an
exact, impartial and comprehensive record of any
truck, irrespective of size, make, or the class of haul
ing the vehicle is doing.
It was impossible, of course, for every entrant to win a
prize in cash. But every owner and driver did get an hv
sight into the higher service he might expect from his
truck, when operated on the principles explained to
him by the Technical Service Department of his local
Packard Branch or Packard Dealer.
It is the function of the Technical Service Depart
ment to see that every available means of motor trans
portation shall be kept running at highest efficiency.
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In a very real sense this test is a nation-wide exten
sion of the Packard Policy of 100 War Work.
And the truck owners and truck drivers who carried
through this test knew that they were thereby render
ing the fullest co-operation with the Government.
THE PRIZE WINNERS AND JUES IN THE NATIONAL TRUCK EFFICIENCY TEST
Class AVb. and 2 ton trucks
FIRST: What Cheer Chemical Co., Pawtucket, R. L,
James L. Drury, Driver.
SECOND: Edson, Moore &. Co., Detroit, Mich.,
Edward Dallas, Driver.
THIRD: Edson, Moore &. Co Detroit, Mich.,
Leon Moore, Driver.
Class B 3 and 4 ton trucks
FIRST: H. F. Cherigo & Sons, Baltimore, Md.,
Lew Bacighipi, Driver.
SECOND: Salt Lake City Pressed Brick Co., Salt
Lake City, Oloff Hanson, Driver.
THIRD- Harper & Wilr, Baltimore, Md., C. Wilr,
Driver.
Class C S and 6 ton trucks
FIRST: W. M. Hoyt Co Chicago 111., Joseph Brook.
bank, Driver.
SECOND: Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co., Newark,
N. J., Charles Langbein and Joseph Birchler,
Drivers.
THIRD: H. F. Cherigo &. Sons, Baltimore, Md,
J. Butts, Driver.
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The owner winning first honors in each class is awarded $1000. The
winning driver in each class is 'awarded $500; second, $100; third, $75.
The judges who made the awards were three well known experts on
Motor Transportation: H. P. Gould, editor of 100; H. W. Slauson, M. E.,
motor editor, of Leslie's j and Waldemar Kaempffert, editor of Popular
Science. The records of the test were identified by number and at the
time of making the awards the judges did not know the names of the
winners.
Practically every line of business employing motor trucks, from a ,
single truck to the "fleet," competed throughout the three months of the'
National Truck Efficiency Test.
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The National Truck Efficiency Test, for the first time, gave an incentivt
to the driver to keep rtcords to keep his truck in the best operating
condition.
It is true that, in most cases, the owner selects the truck of his choice.
But it is the driver to whom the care, operation costs, upkeep and effi
ciency of the truck are entrusted.
One of the most valuable results of the test was the close co-operation
rendered by the Technical Service Department of the local Packard
Branches and Dealers with the individual truck driver distributing in
formation on better operating methods, greater efficiency, lower upkeep
and running costs.
PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Detroit
Packard Motor Car Co. of Philadelphia
319 North Broad Street
ThelPackard Motor Car Co. of Philadelphia
further announces that it hai awarded prltet to the following local drivers
of Packard Trucks In th Philadelphia district :
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