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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1941
Page
7
A vintage piece urges respect for truck drivers as key road safety partners. It praises their professional discipline, pretrip checks, safe nighttime driving, and refusal to risk cargo or lives. It contrasts sensational driving tales with responsible behavior and calls for emulating safe trucking practices.
The Federal Coordinator of Transportation findings show trucks play a key role in national growth. Assignable costs reveal buses mostly meet or exceed costs, while trucks over 1%-ton generally outperform assigned costs. The note adds that one tenth of US paychecks derive from trucking and West Virginia has over 46,000 licensed truck drivers. A cautionary line urges staying behind trucks rather than meeting them head on.
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