Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-06-18 | Page 40 | Brick Company to Use Troy Trailers

' BRICK COMPJf ID U TRAILERS T.anclcs & Co. of this city delivered six Troy five-ton motor truck trailers to the Suit Lako Pressed Brick company last week and they will be used by that company com-pany In delivering their goods througli-v. througli-v. out the county. By using the trailers thev will he able to haul irotn twelve to fifteen tons of hrtrks with each truck and will have the load In three units, making It possible to have three different orders on the wme trip and drop a trailer at each lob and pick them up on the return The trucks have no difficulty in hauling these trailers with the increased tonnage, and In the initial trips It was found that the two trailers loaded to capacity were not Rs great h strain on the truck' as a thousand-pound overload loaded on tile truck would be. The saving that these trailers will make In the cost of delivering bricks will be teen when figured that firteen tons are being delivered at only a verv nominal Increase over the cost of delivering five tons, which Is the capacity of the truck