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President Roosevelt AST April, President Roose Steps on Higher Haulvelt gave.what is described.
as a knock-out blow to the financial thin of the haulage industry. He ordered all regulatory agencies concerned with the rates of common carriers to follow his anti-inflation theories, so that rate increases will be disapproved, and rate reductions effected. Meanwhile, costs have been rising rapidly in this sphere, and only. a few weeks previously a big carriers' conference in the Mid-Atlantic States petitioned the Inter-state Commerce Commission for a rise of about 10 per cent, to offset the higher operating expenses. age Rates Hand Trolley Does NAOST of our readers will be Duty as Get-you-home ivlacquainted with the type of Skate hand trolley which boasts of
two cast-iron wheels of small diameter and a. low steel frame to prevent the load from falling off. We recently saw one of these pressed into service as a first-aid skate under the rear axle of
• a 50-cwt. lorry. The trolley was lashed to the rear axle, on the near side, by means of chains, and it was with an air .of triumph that the perpetrators of this outrage against an innocent trolley watchedthe equipage move off, slowly but safely. We thought it quite a brainy idea. OLITSTANDING among the results of the Tunisian campaign is the failure of the Axis M.T. to stand the pace. Not only was the enemy's armour beaten on the field, but there appears to have been a serious breakdown both of his communications and his transport. In such a highly organized machine as the forces under Von Arnim, these factors were bound to bring disaster, and the evidence so far available suggests that the Germans, in particular, were thrown into a state of complete and immediate chaos as soon as the High Command ceased to be able effectively to direct operations. The moral of the debacle will doubtless be fully apparent to our own military authorities. It has been said that this is a "motor war." The Tunis operations go to confirm that opinion.
Axis African Collapse Was Partly Transport Failure
The Accident Position : A N interesting point has been What IS the IThraised in a motor-trade con Heavy's" Share ? . temporary. The proprietor of
a main-road garage reports that, whereas before the war he was frequently called upon to salvage heavy vehicles that had beexr involved in accidents, such requests have lately become few and far between. Industrial traffic has, too, increased along his route. The question is now asked whether that experience is at all general, and whether there is, in fact, an all-round improvement in the accident, record of the _heavier classes of road transport vehicle. It is to be regretted that the official returns no longer yield sufficient, infOrmation to settle that point, and it may even be questioned whether. the M.O.W.T. would not do well to revert to pre-war practice in this matter.