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    'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.
    'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.
    'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.
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    'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.

    By United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.

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      'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running. - United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee

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      Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running., by US Government

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      Title: 'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.

      Highway Transport Commitee, Council of National Defence, Bulletin 3

      Author: US Government

      Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19757]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RETURN LOADS ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Bruce Albrecht, Jeannie Howse

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      AUGUST 1, 1918

      BULLETIN NO. 3

      (FOR SHIPPERS)

      RETURN LOADS

      TO INCREASE TRANSPORT RESOURCES BY AVOIDING

      WASTE OF EMPTY VEHICLE RUNNING

      HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

      COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE

      WASHINGTON, D.C.

      RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

      The Council of National Defense approves the widest possible use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests the State Councils of Defense and other State authorities to take all necessary steps to facilitate such means of transportation, removing any regulations that tend to restrict and discourage such use.

      WASHINGTON

      GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

      1918

      COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

      HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.

      WASHINGTON, D.C.

      HIGHWAYS

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