Transcontinental Motor Convoy

The Transcontinental Motor Convoys were early 20th century vehicle convoys, including three US Army truck trains, that crossed the United States (one was coast-to-coast) to the west coast. The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco used the incomplete Lincoln Highway.

1911
1912
1912
1913-07-28
1914-11
1915-08-25
1916-07-11
1917-07-04
1917-12
1918-06-02
c. 1918
1918-11-11
1918-12-01
1919-03-27

The Boy Scouts created the Automobiling merit badge.
Packard truck carried 3 tons from New York to San Francisco.
The United States Good Roads Association was formed.[1]
US Army Alaska expedition used a White Motor truck.[2]
The Army reported 1½ ton trucks as superior to 2½ ton trucks.[3]
Transcontinental motor convoy by film crew.[4][5][6]
1st Federal highway funding legislation (five year plan).[7]
Flagpole memorial placed at west Lincoln Highway terminus.[8]
US Army convoy from Detroit to an "Atlantic Coast port"[9]
The US Army School for Truck Drivers had "just opened".
Chicago-to-New York City convoy set Army distance record.
Germans sign an Armistice (cease fire) agreement, ending WWI
90,727 WWI trucks had been produced for the Army & Navy.[10]
The Ship-by-Truck Association was formed.

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