A system of daily interchange of information regarding this irregular
service should be arranged with bureaus in other cities, so that a truck
operator in Hartford, for example, who has a load to haul to New Haven
can learn from the bureau in Hartford before starting where and on what
day or at what time he can secure a load in New Haven to take back to
Hartford. He may find that by delaying his own shipment a day or by
making it a day earlier he can get a return load, whereas otherwise he
might have to return light. Shippers, therefore, should be urged to give
as much advance notice as possible of shipments they wish to make.
Within a short time this system will extend to long distances. Recently
a company in New York called up the Chamber of Commerce (before any
Return-Loads Bureau was established there) and stated it intended to
send a motor truck to Vermont to bring back some machinery and wanted to
know where a load could be secured to take to Vermont or at least a
considerable part of the way. Another company called up and said it had
a truck coming from Philadelphia with a load and wanted to get a load
going back. Motor express lines are already operating on daily schedule
between New York and Philadelphia, between Hartford and New York, and
between Boston and Hartford.
It is the purpose of the Highways Transport Committee to bring about,
just as quickly as possible, the organization of Return-Loads Bureaus in
all the cities where it will be beneficial and to establish reciprocal
relations among them on the plan of the Connecticut system.