Show r Taking th the Load Off Dobbins Dobbin Neck WHY THE IRE USE OF THE POWER WAGON HAS DOUBLED L' L IN L' 14 MONTHS A successful motor truck was waa talking to a prospect who was wag not yet et convinced of the fact tact that a power w gon would save ave him money for his hauling If you van QU want a fact that proves the efficiency of tho the motor truck beyond boord a doubt you ou bavo havo only to take the tho experience once ence of ot the transfer and haulage men of oC this cl city ty They ate are tho the class of ot truck users who havo have most cause to require efficiency Delivery service Is la tho the ono one aim with thorn them The gro grocery ry store owner or tho the dry goods gos man sells his hia goods at a profit and tho the delivery IB Is one ono of tho small Items Stems The man who wiio hauls Wa as a business must make it pay They do and this is 18 proven by the fact tact that they arc buying bung more trucks all the while and selling sell sell- tug ing their horses The tame came thing thinS i. i la Is true truo In a a. national way The figures show that the express transfer and haulage firms havo have now more than twice as many trucks as they had bad fourteen months ago They employ in the United States today 5 power trucks valued at 00 Fourteen months ago the tho total was only tOO trucks valued at Another dealer in S speaking of ot the tho power wagon sail said A Different Field Yield for the Horse Tho truck dealer who wants to be fair Cair will not claim that power is supplanting I the horse As a a. matter of fact there Is IB IBa Isa isa a distinct geld field for the tho horse hono that the I power truck perhaps will never filL We make mako no claim now that a truck can profitably supplant one team Most of oC our do the work of ot three teams and V. V we Voe find that when we can put a a. bat t tery of power wagons and the delivery of or material to the the truck they pay pa- pato to a greater and arid greater degree When hen the business is EO so arranged that the truck can bo be kept in service very every hour of at the day it comes to a a. field where the horse can never compete for tor the horse must have havo rest refit Some Somo of ot the great stores stores stoie have gotten to the point where thc they Install diminutive electric lines in their store stora for tor the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of ot hauling tho loads out to the power truck thus making the waits walts as brief as possible for tor the motor truck To those thoe who put sentiment for tor th the tha horse into the problem I have thIs to B say Bays W The truck is 15 the humane solution for the overworked horse When the day of tremendous tremendous tre tre- rush comes as it must some Rome sometimes some times s tho the truck will get in tn tho the collar without a whimper A dealer who has put many trucks In the Kansas City CittY field says the general figures ho hc has hu found arc are that the truck saves about a a. third over teams in Kansas City City use use- The Tho power wal wagon on wan waa slow stow In arriving here for tor the hills bills were said tId to preclude its profitable use but the tho drivers are coming to realize that the hills made the horses inefficient too and tho the UVo tive results are quite an nn a agreeable stir sur- to them From From tho the Jan Kansas s City Star |