Letters: Trucks on the Roads

Sir: For your Aug. 10 article "Trucks on the Roads" my thanks and congratulations. I am calling it to the attention of all my legislators. It's very gratifying that at least one publication is not strangely silent on the basic cause of our traffic woes — trucks.

R. E. BAUMER Los Angeles

Sir: . . . The best report to the nation on the subject ... To my mind, a fair tax on all inter-city trucks would be one based on ton-miles operated.

LEROY MORRIS Mississippi Central Railroad Co.

Hattiesburg, Miss.

Sir: ... Do the railroads pay you to do this? . . . You...

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