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Show TRUCK SUPEPdOPJTY IS DEMONSTRATED J Manager V. U. White of the Jnter- i Mountain Motor (Jar com pan v, local ' Kissel truck distributors, points to a ; rcivnt article in the Power Wajjon I which pives some strikij figures in proof or' the mpcriority of trie motor truk over the horse Tor nc.ivy hauling, r urpucs. The article rca.i : 'Some of the many advantage's of. Ihe motor truck over tlio horse in r'lf1 i haulage of poles (or toleer;: n.i and tele- i r.'.oue companies are srr;k ,nil v shown , l v th" records ol" the New ( niaivl Tel- j ojdioue & Teleraoh comiaiu" m thai SpringfieW, Mass., district. Compared on the basis of time only, it has been found that one motor truck and a semitrailer semi-trailer are equivalent to six horse-drawn horse-drawn outfits. In one period of 115 hours spent in hauling poles the tractor-trailer outfit traveled 441 miles in twelve davs, at a cost of less than 26 cents a mile. The same work would have required seventy-one days with horses, and the cost would have been 97 cents a mile." |