Download or read book Cost of Operating Trucks for Livestock Transportation (Classic Reprint) written by Patrick Parker Boles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cost of Operating Trucks for Livestock Transportation Trucks owned by the nine firms averaged to 5 miles per gallon of fuel. For most firms, average truck speeds ranged from 45 to 50 miles per hour. Backhauls ranged from O to 25 percent of total trips; most of these were for only part of the return trip. Average annual miles per truck per firm ranged from about to miles. The larger annual mileages tended to be associated with firms having relatively less seasonality in their business and a larger proportion of longer trips. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.