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.Results of National Truck Efficiency Test
Announced by Packard Company
1760 Packard Trucks Show How to Attain Efficiency Urged
by Council of National Defense and Var Industries Board
JOR 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
underlying questions have been brought
sharply to the attention of every truck
user:
What ought I to expect my truck to do for me?
What ought this service to cost me?
All lines of business are vitally interested today in
making every motor truck move more freight, thereby
relieving the burden on the railroads.
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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'
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 Motpr Car Company announced on June 1st
. last tho 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 cam
paign of the National Council of Defense and the War
Industries Board for higher efficiency of motor truck
transportation and the use of motor transportation wher
ever 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 owh were announced
to be 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 detailed
records, on forms of the National Standard Truck Cost
System the one system which keeps an exact, impartial
and comprehensi v e record of any truck, irrespective of
size, make, or the class of hauling 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
insight 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.
In a very real sense this test is a nation-wide extension
of die Packard Policy of 100 War Work.
And the truck' owners and truck drivers who carried
through this test knew that they were thereby rendering
the fullest co-operation with thes Government.
THE PRIZE WINNERS AND JUDGES IN THE NATIONAL TRUCK EFFICIENCY TEST
Class A 1 5 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 i Edson, Moore & Co, Detroit; Mich,
Leon Moore, Driver.
Class B 3 and 4 ton trucks
FIRST: H. F. Cherigo &. Sons, Baltimore, MJ,
Lew Bacighipi, Driver.
SECOND: Salt Lake City Press Brick Co,
Salt Lake City, Olpff Hanson, Driver. '
THIRD: Harper & Wils, Baltimore, Md, C.
Wilz, Driveri
Class C S and 6 ton trucks
FIRST: W. M. Hoyt Co, Chicago, UL, Joseph
BrookbanL, Driver.
SECOND: Gottfried Krueger Brewing' Co,
Newark, N. J, Charles Langbein and Joseph
Birchler, Drivers.
THIRD: ILF. Cheriso & Sons, Baltimore, Md,
J. Butts, Driver.
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. Qould, editor of 100; H. VV.
S7 uson, M. E,motor editor, of Leslie's; and WaldemarKaemptTert,
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 die names of the winners.
Practically every line of business employing motor trucks, from
single truck to the "fleet," competed throughout the three months
of the National Truck Efficiency Test. The National Truck Effi.
ciency Test, for (the first time, gave an incentivi to the driver to
keep records 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 efficiency 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 tha
local Packard Branches and Dealers with the individual truck
driver distributing information on better operating methods,
greater efficiency, lower upkeep and running costs.
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