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as quickly as possible an organization of return-load bureaus in all
States where it will be beneficial to establish reciprocal relations
It is the purpose of the Highways Transport Committee to bring about
as quickly as possible an organization of return-load bureaus in all
States where it will be beneficial to establish reciprocal relations.
In the meantime shipments can be made over those routes which have
been designated for highway transportation. Motor trucks are a part of
the transportation equipment of every community, and to increase their
transport capacity they should operate continuously under full loads
as far as possible. This is also in the interests of conservation, in
that they do not ‘wear the road without the load,’ and effect a saving
of the equipment and incidental supplies. Shippers can be of
considerable assistance in making efficient this war-time measure by
cooperating with the return-load bureaus. Shippers are urged to give
as much advance notice as possible, so that the bureaus may notify
those in other cities in time to arrange for loads for motor trucks on
return trips.

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‘The destinies of our country run east and west. Intercourse
between the mighty interior west and the sea coast is the great
principle of our commercial prosperity.’ These are the words of
Edward Everett in advocating the Boston and Albany Railroad. In
effect Washington had uttered those same words half a century
earlier when he gave momentum to an era filled with energetic
but unsuccessful efforts to join with the waters of the West the
rivers reaching inland from the Atlantic. The fact that American
engineering science had not in his day reached a point where it
could cope with this problem successfully should in no wise
lessen our admiration for the man who had thus caught the vision
of a nation united and unified by improved methods of
transportation.

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