Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-12-22
TRUCK IS GOOD FOR
HIGHWAY REPAIRING
! SAYS c. H. REUBEN

THE great economic value of the
motor truck is quickly appreciated
when one stops to consider that trucks
not only help greatly in the construc,
ton and maintenance OF ROADS ana
streets, but when operated IN highway
TRANSPORTATION make the money invest
ed in the construction of hard surfaced
roadways pay a large and immediate
money return" says G. H. Reuben, local
Kissel distributor
For example, in Colorado, where the
roads are gravel surfaced automoDllo
tires have a tendency to throw the
gravel surface off of the crown of the
road. making it frequently necessary 20
go over them with a grader to keep the
roads properly shaped 1t is also nee
essarv to regravel the roads from time
to time, and great many trucks are
being used in this work.
1.-THE Kissel heavy duty dump truck
successfully handles grader, or dra 3
recurring from six to eight and even
ten to twelve horses, for the reshapinS
| of the roads. No attempt is made to
use the truck to pull a grader in the
| building Of new roads or to pull
scarifiers in tearing up old road beds,
as this is work which requires a large
tractor to handle successfully. In some
! instances, it is done with truck, but
We do not recommend the use of a
truck for this extremely heavy work
as we consider the tractor better
adapted to this part of road work.
THE many advantages of a truck
I over horses for the handling of light
grading and drag work are obvious. IT
the first place, as the horses are SO
bn nW9Ga1-S. il ic
handicap to the governments food pro
gram to allow them to be taken off the
farms for road work which can be done
better and at less expense with trucks
Furthermore the heavy duty truck vii
pull the average six or eight horse dras
or grader at rate twice as fast -
horses will bull it, and will keep COINS
all day long, while horses in the SAME
work would have to stop for breath
ing spell every little while The kisse
truck referred to handles a grader Of
drag that generally requires six Of
eight hoses. Because it goes twice a!
fast. it in reality does the work o
twelve to sixteen horses and even more
on account of not losing time by stop
ping for breathing spells.
THE old fashioned way to gravel
road was to haul a yard of grave
weighing nearly a ton. and a half witt
a team and dump wagon. The grave
was dumped in q pile and then raket
or spread with a shovel or grader t
what appeared to be smooth surfacC
but the fact is that the first of the loa
went down with the weight of the bal
ance of the load (nearly ~ rons) t
pack it. and that which was shovelc
or spread with a grader was unpacked
therefore, as the traffic packed tn
gravel, it was inclined to be wavy
'In crawling a road with the RICH
kind of a road builders truck, equippe
/, with a power dunn body and tail gat,
, the body is so arranged that il wi
open any desired width, thereby allow
ing the gravel to be put on the roa
: from two to six inches in depth as dc
sired The gravel is dumped and sprea
, as the truck drives along in a stri
five feet wide, requiring no spreadn;
f and falls with an even pressure: there
fore, the road will be smooth after til
traffic has packed the gravel down.
, Experienced road builders will n,
put on more than an inch or two
, gravel at time and after sprinklir
: 1t, they will roll it with a heavy roa
: roller. 1t is far better to build the roa
j this way, surfacing more often tina
: the way which has been adopted |
e many county commissioners who !
o the graveling go for two or three yea
T at time. then try to put on four
Y eight inches a. once and let the trait
e pack it in. Tourists will go miles o.
: of their way to avoid driving over
Il road of the latter type"