Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-23 | Page 58 | Tire Man Tells How to Choose a Truck

II Mflj TELLS HI to mm TRUCK B. F. Goodrich Manager Lays Down Rules to Govern Gov-ern Situation. Choosing the riglat truck for the job. Tli is is the question confronting hundreds hun-dreds of business men who have decided to discard the horse and wagon for motor mo-tor truck haulage. First, s newest s Mr. Kanlzcr. district ma nager of tlie B. F. Goodrich Rubber company, the prospective buyer of a motor mo-tor truck should carefully analyze bis hauling needs and get all the qualities and requirements a truck must possess to measure up to his demands. Making the wrong selection in buying: either one or a fleet of trucks would mean a serious se-rious waste of time and money. Merchant, manufacturer or farmer must first analyze his hauling problems by consideration of the following fundamentals funda-mentals their importance ranking In the order named: Size of average load, power, ' governing speed, size of body, wheel base, type of truck. The size of the average load is the factor fac-tor which determines carrying capacity of the truck selected. The operator hauling haul-ing small units has a different problem from the owner who hauls heavy machinery. ma-chinery. The former may select any capacity ca-pacity truck he desires, while the latter lat-ter must select a machine capable of carrying car-rying a maximum load, in order to avoid tlie evils of overloading. And the oarry-ing oarry-ing capacity feature has still another angle the man who has a haul over a prescribed distance each day which necessitates ne-cessitates employing one particular truck for the work. He should be cautioned to select a truck w hich will serve his maximum capacity load, in order that be may not overload or cause a second trip. Routes, schedules and the character of the merchandise hauled have a direct bearing on the choice of truck. The power of the truck selected should be determined only after careful consideration con-sideration of the weights to . he carried, the character of the service and the percentage per-centage of grade in the zone traveled by the truck. Probably most important is the grade percentage. Hill country demands de-mands a different gear ratio than for machines that run over level ground the engine of a hill-climbing truck should i have a longer lever.with which to work, j For suburban dclrvery, where speed is I an essential item in the service, light trucks arc advisable when frequent stops are made. Where fixed loads over a given route are to be hauled, a truck of medium speed and large hauling capacity is a wise selection. But, for the owner j having heavy haulaee in congested dis-i dis-i tricts, speed is sacrificed for heavy car-i car-i rving power. Regulated speed allows the j owner to plan his delivery system and check up his drivers.