Show F iwo jy 51 I REDUCING DAMAGE TO repair bills would ce greatly lessened i by placing more of loads over front axle prepared Pie pared by the united states department of agi repair Ite I lulls ills for dain damaged aged toads loads would id in ile much belu reduced o engineers in ID the hie burea it of public 1 londs report after emcil lm work if motor trucks were ere designed to arry more of the loads load put on elbein oner the front axle anil and less leis les s oer tile rear wheels as nt at present in tile average heavy beavy truck of today the body Is nearly balanced on the i axle whey when the truck strikes tin obstacle or tin an irregularity in the lilg highway the damage done to tile road surface by the rear wheels is much greater titan than it 11 would I 1 lie if the load wre on both a axles ghen a perfectly sni orith road surface ay liy iy a truck with perfectly circular tires fire there would it MR rn i L Q 1 AN Q Motor trucks property properly loaded will reduce damage of roads be no impact regardless s of the speed or of load since such tin an ideal condi condition timi is practically impossible road ping engineers fincers recognize that all factors which increase or reduce the impact of a load are am of the utmost importance in planning highway construction and regulation the placing of the larger part of the iliad on the rear axle Is only one of several factors which lend lead to high impact forces it in general the increased speed of the truck will increase the impact hence tile the necessity tor for keeping the aik oik operating rating speed N within till reasonable Ilir limits lits kept as smooth mo olli as possible v careful main teri feriance ance will dedace ane po possibility sivility ot of trucks exerting impact elioud ua pressure forces upon the highway suffice sur fice cu h son on or pneumatic tires also reduce impact an and muse cause less leq damage to the highways than thae of hard linal rubber espee especially lally it the latter are not kept in good repair |