New Rules on Trucks and Deliveries

Washington, May 26-John L. Rogers, director of the Division of Motor Tiansport in the office of Defense Transportation, has advised that the ODT will grant exemption from its order requiring trucks to iarrv at leait 75 per cent load on return trips in the case of trucks employed exclusively in hauling lumber for defense projects and where it is shown that the trucker findi it- impossible to arrange for back-haul loads.

Of the utmost importance to the lumber industry are General Orders No. 5 and No. 6, issued by the Office of Defense Transportation, Director Joseph Eastman, as "Conservation of Motor Equipment."

No. 5 goes into efiect June l, 1942. Its purpose is to conserye tires and equipment, eliminate waste in operations and curtail schedules as specified. It affects every "over-the-road" private truck operator.

Under this order, no private carrier shall operate a truck and transport a gross load which exceeds by more than 2O per cent its rated capacity, nor operate a truck over the road unless it is loaded to capacity at point of origin. On return trip, the truck must be loaded to 75 per cent of capacity.

However, a truck may move empty from the point of final discharge of the load to a, nearby point where traffic is available for loading, if such traffic cannot otherwise be transported.

"Over-the-road" service means all operations except those wholly within any municipality or urban community, or between contiguous municipalities or urban communities, or within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of same, or except hauls of not more than 15 miles in length.

Excepted from the order are the following operations: A motor truck exclusively containing explosives or dangerous articles; a truck controlled and operated by one principally engaged in farming when used in hauling agricultural commodities from farrns to markets, or supplies from markets to farms; public utility trucks; public health and safety trucks; trucks operated by the armed forces of the Federal or State Government; trucks that are given special permits by the ODT.

General Order No. 6, issued by the Office of Defense Transportation affects local deliveries, within any municipality or between contiguous municipalities or urban communities; or within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of same, or in making hauls which do not exceed 15 miles in length.

Effective May 15, the order provides that:

(a) No local carrier shall make any special deliveries except to hospitals and delivery of medicines and other supplies necessary to the protection in emergencies of health, life and safety.

(b) Nor make any call backs.

(c) Nor make more than one delivery on any one day to any one person. However, if one day's shipment, or shipments to any one person exceeds the capacity of a single vehicle, then in that event delivery of same in full shall be considered as one delivery.

The order further requires that effective June I each local carrier shall reduce the total monthly vehicle mileage of rubber tired vehicles a minimum amount of 25 per cent of the total mileage of vehicles in operation during the same months of 1941.This 25 per cent reduction is to be over and above what you save from elitnination of special deliveries, call backs and only one delivery a day to each person as set out above. If you were not in business in 1941, then the month of May, 1942, is to be your comparative month for computing the 25 per cent reduction.

"special delivery" means a delivery by vehicle made at the special instance or request of a person other than regular scheduled service.

"Call back" means every call by vehicle of a local carrier at the premise of any person subsequent to the first call on any given day, and includes calls made for the sole purpose of picking up property for return, or for making collections.

If joint and collective action is taken by local carriers to curtail or pool deliveries, such a plan should have the fullest participation of all interested merchants, and must not contain any unreasonable restraints of trade, or the deliberate exclusion of a competitor from the benefits of such a program, or be the excuse for joint selling activities.

Every local carrier is required to prepare and maintain records as to mileage and such other records as the ODT may hereafter call for.

The following vehicles are exempted from the order:

When operated exclusively in connection with maintenance of essential telegraph, telephone, radio communications, electric light and power, gas, water supply, sew-age and garbage disposal, and sanitation services.

Vehicles of all the armed forces, Federal and State.

Vehicles controlled and operated by any person or persons principally engaged in farming when used in the transportation of agricultural commodities and products thereof from farms, or in transporting supplies to farms.

Local carriers engaged in performing pick up and delivery services for line-haul motor, rail, express, air and water carriers, as well as freight forwarders.

Southern California Sash and Door Industries Hold Golf Tournament

Walter Metz, Metz Co., was the winner of the first flight with a low score of 67 at the wholesalers sash and door golf tournament held at the southern california Golf Club, Thursday afternoon, April 14, and was awarded the Hollywood Door trophy. Homer Ward, Craftbilt Cabinets, was the runner-up with a net scorq of Zg and was pre_ sented with a sweater.

The decond flight was won by Dave Davis, IJnion Lumber Company, with a low net of 68 and he was awarded the Cal-Dor trophy. Gene DeArmond, pacific Cabinet Co., with a low net of 69 was the runner-up and received a golf trofhy.

D. D. McCallum, D. D. McCallum Sash & Door Co., won the third flight with a low net of.Z3 and was awarded the Bohnhoff Lumber Company trophy. The runner_up was Ben Tyre, Tyre Bros. Glass & paint Co., and he was presented with a golf trophy.

George Ryness, Ryness Flooring Co. came nearest to the cup on the seventh green and received a traveling bag. The door pize, a traveling bag, was won by Ben fy*.

Hervey Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Co., was the winner of the first blind bogey prize, a tray, and Sid Simmons, Bohnhoff Lumber Company, the second prize, a traveling set.

Winners in the other special events were given golf balls. Dinner was served in the Club House ai Z,OO p.*. and was followed with the presentation of the prizes b y Earl Galbraith, who acted as master of ceremonies.

Frank Gehring, Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co., chairman of the Prize Committee announced that prizes had been donated by the following: Sweater, George Ryness ; tra_ veling bag, G. E. Valencourt, L. H. Butcher Co.: travel_ ing set, Lloyd Miller, Southwest Sash & Door Co. ; tray, Art Harf ; traveling bag, Jack Brody, Southwest Sash & Door Co., and two golf trophies by the Golf Committee. The trophies awarded to the winners in the first, second and third flights, were donated by the West Coast Screen Co., The California Door Company, and Bohnhoff Lumber Company.

A vote of thanks was extended to the Arrangements Committee which included Ed Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Company, Orrin Wright, West Coast Screen Co. and Earl Galbraith.

There was a good turnout, 50 playing golf and 25 present for the dinner.

CLOSE RETAIL YARDS-WILL CONTINUE WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT

Because of economic conditions engendered by the war, the Hayward Lumber & fnvestment Co. of Los Angeles have closed their Bloomington, Banning and Los Angeles retail yards, according to an announcement by Ralph N. Baker, vice-president and general manager.

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