The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-22
MANY SERVICES BY TRUCKS.

An ordinary days grist OF communica-
lions from the manufacturers Of CONNER
clal vehicles shows an interesting variety
OF uses to which the motor truck II put
The variety is more than merely inter-
esting. because 1t shows how thoroughly
the commercial vehicle has established
itself as a necessary adjunct OF business
life. To show what is meant take these
examples
For Doing Road Work.
The Brooklyn Alcatraz Asphalt Com
pany has purchased from the White Com
pany nine five ton power dump trucks
for hauling and dumping street paving
material. The Brooklyn concern owns the
largest feet OF power dump trucks In this
line of work.
Other companies which operate fleets OF
White dump trucks are Warren Bros.
Company of Boston. the Pacific Mills OF
Lawrence, Mass; Cleveland Builders
Supply Company OF Cleveland, Ohio. New
England Crushed Stone and Contracting
Company. Roxbdry, Mass. and T w.
Thwsits and Ralph Blass of San Fran
cisco.
Hauis NitroglycePine.
The American Glycerine Company OF
Wilmington. Del. manufacturers and sell
crs of nitroslycerlne. operating In the oil
fields OF Pennsylvania. Ohio Indiana and
Illinois. where the explosive Is used In
shooting oil wells. has bought a Com
merce motor truck for service In tho oil
fields near Findlay. Ohio.
The explosive Is carried IN the liquid
state In a. special cradle. The weight OF
the nitro glycerine In one load 10 limited
to $40 pounds.
Oysters Brought 10 Market.
Peerless trucks have replaced express
shipments from the oyster beds at War
rem. II. l.. to commission houses in Bos-
ton. Formerly tubs were made ready at
Warren by m the afternoon. loaded on
wagons. unloaded into express cars. un-
loaded from one train and loaded into
another at Providence, loaded onto horse
trucks at the Boston station. unloaded
at the commiss ion merchants place and
delivered from there BY his wagons. This
Involved seven landings.
The real difficulty was that to serve
their trade the commission merchants
had 10 have their stock by o'clock In
the morning and tho express companies
could not make delivery regularly ut that
time. The oysters came In at 9, 10 and 1
and shippers and receivers were both dis
couraged
Frank Cotrone OF Providence jumped
into the situation with his two Peerless
trucks-one four ton and one nve ton. For
hauling the oysters to Boston he char ged
He gavo the growers two extra hours
every day TO prepare their shipments. as
II was not necessary for his truck to leave
Warren until o o'clock in the evening OF
even later. After loading tho trucks
! were driven TO Providence and stayed
there until midnight. when they started
for Boston. Five hours is easy time for
the trip, so the oysters were always on
hand when the commission merchants
opened their places of business BY moor
or 10 O'Clock the trucks were back II
their garage at Providence The trip IL
made only five nights n week, as there are
no shipments on Saturdays or SUNDAYS
That gives the owner from Saturday
noon until Monday afternoon TO go over
| his trucks thoroughly and get them IN
shape for the next weeks work. Ons
OF the trucks has so far been driven 81,
900 miles and the other $4,000 miles
! They average now 1870 miles a day.