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Route extension, or the addition of stops to a given mounted route has been one of the devices used to capture the savings made possible through the introduction of functional vehicles.

This is demonstrated in the two attached tabulations which refer to a series of six mounted routes in Warren, Ohio, which were used initially as a test situation to prove the validity of this means of capturing savings.

Table A is a summary of the number of stops served by each carrier equipped with a conventional vehicle and also the number of stops to which these routes were increased through the medium of sit-stand drive trucks.

Table B shows the time required for the service of these routes both before the addition of new vehicle and more stops; and afterward. It is worthy of attention to note that even with the judicious addition of the proper number of stops to each route (an overall increase of 14.9 percent) that the individual routes were completed in 8 hours with a reduction of 2 hours and 46 minutes from the total time previously required for all 6 routes.

The result overtime reduced to virtually nothing, routes individually balanced to 8 hours, 14.9 percent added stops, and a 1 percent saving in total time.

TABLE A.-Mounted routes, Warren, Ohio, October 1954-Number of stops added to test routes

TABLE B.-Mounted routes, Warren, Ohio, October 1954-Number of hours per

AFTER 14.9 PERCENT INCREASE IN STOPS, USING TWIN COACH VEHICLES

NOTE.-296:45 minus 293:59 equals 2:46 saved, approximately 1 percent.

DISPOSITION OF TWIN COACH VEHICLES AS OF MARCH 4, 1955

The attached sheets indicate the status of 250 Twin Coach vehicles as of March 4, 1955. In cases where vehicles were supplied to serve new mounted territory or converted rural routes credit was shown at the rate of $1,072 per route per year--an average rate for contract service in 9 Ohio cities.

It may be noted that there are cases of canceled contract whose cost per year was very low. These contracts were canceled before the region took control.

Also of note are the special delivery contract amounts shown as canceled in Cleveland, Ohio. Actually, there were 21 contracts canceled with 10 vehicles, i. e., 2-shift operation.

This realinement of vehicle utilization involved the cancelation of contract routes of high cost and substitution of Twin Coach vehicles for half-ton and 1ton left-hand driver conventional vehicles on selected mounted routes. The half-ton units thus released were used to cancel special delivery contracts or to release in turn right-hand drive Willys units for mounted service. The 1-ton Dodge left-hand drive vehicles released by Twin Coach assignment were used to cancel parcel-post contracts.

[M=Mounted. E=Experimental. NA=Not assigned. T=Transferred out of region]

[M=Mounted. E=Experimental. NA=Not assigned. T=Transferred out of region]