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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922 Municipal Column Edited by the Village Manager TRUCKS VERSUS HIGHWAYS The competition between the in- ventors and makers of armor-piercing projectiles and those who in turn produce armor which they cannot pierce, but which in turn is pierced by projectiles of later deveiopment, seems to have its parallel in the manu facturers of trucks and roads respect- ively. When five-ton trucks were found to be to heavy for certain classes of highways. heavier nighways were built to meet this increased de- mand; but before even a iarge pei- centage of them had been so recon- structed the truck manufactures were turning out ten-ton trucks and ex- pecting the states and counties to provide highways that could carry them. There is no reason for think- ing that trucks cannot be made to capacities of 20, 30 or even 50 tons if such capacities promise to be eco- nomical for transportation and the highway pavements can be made suf- ficiently strong to carry them. The same thing but to a mucin less degree has been taking place in the railroad world, where locomotives have been increasing in weight and power and the rails to carry them have been necessarily made heavier and more strong and durable. In the latter case, however, the progression has been entirely in the control of one party and the increase in either loco- motive or rail has been governed by careful calculation as to the ultimate economy, taking both into considera- tion. In the case of the truck and the highway, however, the cost of con- structing and maintaining tne high- way is no concern of the truck manu- facturer or user, since none of the cost comes out of his pocket, but all is paid either by the taxpayers directly or by traffic in general. There can be no question that the point will be reached, if it has not already been reached, when further increase in weight of truck and consequent cost of highways will cease to be econ- omical, if all expenditures and profits are taken into consideration, and some authority should be given the power to limit the weight of truck, or else the truck users must be put in the position of paying such share of the cost of the highway as to cause them themselves to feel and heed the economical limit. It has been said a number of times and by a number of those interested in the problem that highways should be made for the traffic and that, no matter 'what the traffic demands may SILVERT GIT NER be, the highways must meet those de- mands if it would not halt the progress of civilization. We do not believe that the taxpayers of the country will ac- cept this dictum ii the facts and logic are placed fairly and squarely before them. Most of the attempts at solving the of state limitations to the weight of trucks that will be permitted to use the highways of the state in question. Maryland is an illustration, and her limitation of the weight of trucks is explained and defended in an article recently published by J. M. Mackall, chairman and chief engineer of the States Roads Commission. One method of requiring trucks as well as other vehicles to pay in pro- portion to the use they make of the roads is by the gasoline tax, which has become quite popular within the past year or two, having been adopted in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Con- necticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi- ana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Washington. The Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, in urg- ing that sources of revenue for high- ways be adopted that would be paid for by road users, stated that $40,000, - 000 annually could be raised for road building and maintainance by a tax of one cent per gallon of gasoline. Another method of bringing the economic limit home to the truck user is offered by Colorado. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission holds that truck owners have no right to make profit out of capital furnished by the taxpayers in the form of public high- ways. 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