BY R. E. FULTON Vice-President of the International Motor Company HE problem of good roads is only one part of a bigger problem-transportation. It is necessary to state this obvious fact for the simple reason that the obvious is usually the last thing we see. The other half of the problem is vehicles, plus their motive power. Good transportation has resolved itself into two things: good roads and motor trucks. A favorable sign of the times is the growing recognition on the part of good roads advocates that good roads exist for the use of better transportation media -the motor truck and the automobile. The motor truck is not only replacing horse transportation, but in many cases it is supplanting railways. The motor truck is the solution of the modern transportation problem. 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