Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-04-03 | Page 14 | Expert on Motors Warns Against Overloads

I EXPERT ON MOTORS WARNS T n OVERLOADS Salesman Who Promises More Than Warranted Laying Up Trouble The over enthusiastic salesman Is often otten apt to guarantee his j particular kind kin of truck to carry as much as per percent percent percent cent more than Its Us rated capacity says nays Quimby Stewart transportation engineer of the Pacific Nash Motor company company local of Nash passenger cars and trucks But no truck Is capable of successfully hauling such euch overl overloads ads and that this is true can easily be shown to s a a reasonable man manIn s 's sIn In the first place a a. guarantee of ot that kind amounts to absolutely nothing noth noth- ing The tires are not guaranteed teed by bythe bythe bythe the truck manufacturer but by bythe the tire manufacturer and the tire manufacturer will not stand back of his his' tires If It they are overloaded Incidentally the tires will WUl be one of ot the first parts put of the truck to give out under this overloading abuse abu e Secondly the standard cu guarantee rantee given by truck manufacturers covers only the replacement of parts which prove de defective defective de- de deI I not those which w wear ar out Practically I all trucks have a a capacity placed on the e dash or some other prominent I I place ac giving the rated edth capacity ip I and warning that the that the guarantee is voided It if the truck is In overloaded k I Finally Stewart concluded the the theman manufacturers manufacturer's manufacturers manufacturer's man man- guarantee covers a period of three months In most cases though In some cases it is one year I but never nevermore nevermore nevermore more than that Even If U the manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer does replace parts that give due to overloading during the guarantee guarantee guarantee guaran guaran- tee period it itis is after that period when the owner has no protection that overloading overloading overloading over over- loading evils usually come home to roost