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Show sometimes forty and fifty heavy freight cars. "It is in the distribution of weight," Mr. Savage declares, "that a motor truck is able to carry the load with the least strain. Every motor truck is endowed with plenty o surplus power to carry much bigger loads than the truck's rated capacity. For example, a tlfree-ton truck cannot support a vertical load in. excess of three tons, yet by trailerizing a six-ton six-ton load can be divided into two parts, one-half carried on the truck and the oilier half on the trailer. It requires but one operator, one power plant and one truck." TRAILER II TELLS i mm poll Savage Explains This Great Feature of the Utility Wagons. 3 - Present truck owners who will require 1 additional carrying units in the future sill do well to investigate the merits of I, , trailerized transportation. It is declared by many trailer distributors that trucks "f a given capacity can transport dou- Ll Wo that capacity when trailerized. In JJ: words, a single truck with a ca- 5,j Paclty of three tons is capable, under or- ,Sj dinary road conditions, to carry an addl- aj lionai three-ton load by trailer, pulling tlio load through the drawbar. ' According to manager Savage of the I Mvage Motor company, local distributors of Utility trailer, a motor truek can usually pull through the drawbar a load ! ten times as great as It is capable of car- i ping "on its back." As an example of ; ncreased hauling service through trailer- i izms, lie points to the simple case of a raw engine hauling thirtv to forty 'jaded cars. It woukl be out of the question ques-tion for a freight engine to carry such a I i IMmrnoth load or deadweight upon its ; on frame, but by distributing the weight I ,llroIJSh a series of frames, or freight i ''"'. and pulling the load through the drawbar, the engine is able to transport |