Exhibit 24.1
 
                       POWER OF ATTORNEY

   
     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned
directors of U.S. Auto Receivables Company hereby severally
constitutes and appoints ROBERT A. LINK, BYRON C. BABBISH and
STEVEN C. POLING, or any one or more of them, to be his agents,
proxies and attorneys-in-fact, to sign and execute in his name, 
place and stead and on his behalf as a director of U.S. Auto
Receivables Company, and to file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, the Registration Statement of CARCO Auto Loan Master
Trust on Form S-3, registering under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, auto loan asset backed securities in an aggregate
principal amount of $3,000,000,000 and any and all further
amendments (including any pre- and post-effective amendments) to
such Registration Statement, and to file all exhibits thereto and
other documents in connection therewith, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing required
to be done that may be necessary or desirable, hereby approving,
ratifying and confirming all that the aforesaid agents, proxies
and attorneys-in-fact do, or that any one of them does or causes
to be done, on his behalf pursuant to this Power of Attorney.


     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their
hands as of this 5th day of October, 1994.
    


/s/ D. M. Cantwell                       /s/ E. F. Langs
    D. M. Cantwell                           E. F. Langs



/s/ T. P. Dykstra                        /s/ L. A. Neeb
    T. P. Dykstra                            L. A. Neeb 


   
/s/ Jeremiah E. Farrell                  _____________________
    Jeremiah E. Farrell                      J. A. Sellgren
    


                    /s/ John P. Tierney  
                        John P. Tierney