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Show DOUBLING CAPACITY OF CUKE TRUCK " 'T-Tow can T handle loads greater than the capaci ty of my truck ?' is a query often made by truck owners, and the answer an-swer lies in the attachment of an efficient trailer," declares A. F. Savage, manager of the White-Savage Motor company, local lo-cal factory distributor of commerce trucks. "Tills answer may sound rather dubious to those who have given no thought to trallerized transportation. Although Al-though a three-ton truck shouid carry no more than its rated capacity of three tons, it can easily pull through the drawbar a load of from three to thirty tons-, without strain. Every truck is equipped with ample reserve power to pull from rive to twenty times the ordinary load it carries, according to road conditions. condi-tions. This reserve power in the motor remains idle, but a small' part of it can be used by attaching an efficient trailer or two and drawing a distributed load. "There are many cases where trailers have made from 100 per cent, to 50u per cent extra profit to the truck owner. The addition of a trailer eliminates the necessity neces-sity of an extra truck driver; it saves the operating cost and initial investment of a truck, and it enables a singie operator to transport loads in the same time as is required for a single load. "Utility trailer sales are mounting by leaps and bounds in this locality, as they are built especially to meet typical western west-ern editions and are meeting every re- quirement. They are built .lust as staunch as the most expensivo motor truck, "The other day one of our prospects asked me how long a Utility would last. That question stumped me. The fact of the matter is there is not a single worn-out worn-out Utility in the country, to our knowledge, knowl-edge, although some have been In operation opera-tion for more than-three vears and some have traveled over 100,000 miles." |