Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 90, Ed. 1 Monday, April 16, 1951 Page: 3 of 8
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To Save Them Is Your Problem
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There is an old Proverb . . . One
Picture Speaks Louder Than a Thousand
Words.
These recent pictures of various Tex-
as truck-damaged highways tell a tragic
story.
They show conclusively what is hap-
pening to Texas highways under the re-
lentless pounding of heavy and overload-
ed truck:.
These are your highways.
You provided the money to build
them.
You are paying at the rate of $115,
000,000 annually to maintain and repair
them, according to the 1950 report of
Texas Highway Department.
You must furnish the money through
taxes to rebuild them. Texas Highway
Department officials say this will cost one
and one-quarter billions of dollars.
You have granted the big truckers
the Privilege of using them for personal
gain - not the Right to abuse and destroy
them.
It is in the interest of every Texas
taxpayer, including the truckers and the
railroads, to prevent the destruction of
Texas highways and to safeguard the lives
of the people who use them.
Now before the Texas Legislature is
a bill, sponsored by the big truckers, to
raise the truck load limit from its present
48,000 pounds to 58,420 pounds, an in-
crease of more than 20%.
Raising the truck load limit means
Increasing damage to the highways . . .
increasing the hazard to human life
. . . increasing congestion on the high-
nays . . . increasing the inconvenience to
automobile travel . . . and increasing the
burden carried by Texas taxpayers- all of
this for the sole benefit of the big truckers.
With its present truck load limit,
Texas has the finest system of highways
in the United States.
To keep it that way it is important
that you write your State Senator and
Representatives in Austin at once telling
them that you oppose the Big Truckers'
bill to increase the Texas truck load limit.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 90, Ed. 1 Monday, April 16, 1951, newspaper, April 16, 1951; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290493/m1/3/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.