Public Roads, Vol. 5

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Excerpt from Public Roads, Vol. 5: A Journal of Highway Research, March 1924Twenty-nine and six-tenths per cent of the trucks Operated over the highways of_the State were loaded in excess of their rated capacity, but this percentage represented a considerable improvement over the con dition Observed in 1921, a fact that is attributed to the enforcement of the traffic laws of the State.Overloading is a practice in which trucks of all makes and capacities are involved, although the indications are that the $2, and 5% to 71} ton trucks are not overloaded as regularly as the 2 to 5 ton trucks, the small percentage of overloading Of the 5% to 7i~ ton trucks being attributed in part to the enforcement of the -pound maximum gross load limit of the Connecticut law.Sixty - five and two-tenths per cent of the overloaded vehicles are trucks of 1-ton capacity or less.There is a distinct relation between the width of truck body and the probability of overloading, the percentage of overloads increasing rapidly with increase in bod width.Wit the exception of the trucks of the 5%-ton class the average tri mileage for trucks of all capacities is less than 70 mil)es.The average trip mileage of pneumatic-tired trucks exceeds that Of solid-tired trucks in all capacities except the 7} to 1% ton group.The average net load per vehicle is greater in solid tired trucks Of all capacities than in pneumatic-tired vehicles.The net loads carried on extra-state trucks average greater than the net loads carried by Connecticut trucks.The use of the Connecticut highway system by foreign trucks, on a ton - mile basis, is greater than the use by Connecticut trucks.Connecticut trucks, constituting 89 per cent of the total motor-truck traffic, transport er cent of the total net tonnage and account for 0 y per cent of the total milea e, the latter condition being attributed to the fact t at the movement of foreign trucks is generally a long-distance movement, while the average mileage made by Connecticut trucks is lowered by the higher percentage of. Local hauls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.