Arizona republican., 1920-11-21
CaterpilIars Doing Great Work Under
 AdUerse. Conditions

W. R. Roberts, manager of the Phoenix Rubber company calls atten- ton to this issue of the Arizona Re publican in which a letter is repre- duced from the Arizona Storage & Distributing company. the largest con- cern of this character in the west. to the R. D. Roper Motor company, dis tributors for the Moreland truck, which tells of the efficient manner in which a 5000 pound load was recently transported from here to Castle Hot Springs. The article speaks volumns for the efficiency of the Arizona Stor- age & Distributing company in hand ling. in a modern way, any class Of freight, regardless of weight, and for the remarkable performance of the Moreland truck and Kelly Springfield Caterpillar tires, with which the truck was equipped.
 A few short years ago ii is doubtful if load of this character could have been transported at all, and it is safe to say had such a problem been->at- ] tempted it would have taken week s time, at an enormous outlay of eX- pense, whereas with the modern truck it required only a part of one days work to accomplish it.
 He says: The proper tire equip ment for a truck carrying such a loao is very necessary in order to accom-
 plish the desired results. The man lagement of the Arizona Storage & Dis tributing company is authority for the statement that this particualr truck
 on this particular haul, would nevei
 have been able to pull some of thu
 grades encountered on the roads with
 out the Caterpillar tire equipment or
 the rear wheels.
 '1n order to show that the Cater
 pillar type tire is the proper equip
 ment for trucks of this character
 doing heavy duty service, it Is inter esting to note the service the tires ol this particular truck have rendered The rear tires are 36x7 and wer placed on this truck April 12, 1929 and according to the records have i
 addition to running several thousan . miles fin and around Phoenix, mad , four trips to Roosevelt dam, one tri = = to Castle Hot Springs, six trips { I Canon, besides having been used r the Gillespie dam for two weeks, hauling construction materials frol f Hassayampa to the Gillespie dam sit . Anyone familiar with these roads wi
 agree that worse roads do not exist sl By actual measurement. today thes tires show more rubber on the trea :. than is to be found on any standar < tire, of this size, in the old solid typ 1 There are certain types of smoot
 surfaced roads over which trucks, u , to two-ton capacity, may be operate o efficiently and economically wit r pneumatic tire equipment. For tn Kelly Springfield manufactures an
 recommends the use of their pnei
 matic cord truck tires.
 C But for the average state roads, e their present condition. trucks of tw y ton capacity and larger can ! e operated more efficiently, more ecC '- nomically and more successfully wit d the caterpillar type tire. 4 large ma IT jority of the owners of big true d fleets, all over this country, know wh; g this type of tire has accomplished ar ,r are standardizing on the caterpill;
 for their trucks. The ever increasir L6 number of caterpillar tires are vel
 noticeable, at this time, on the trucl
 being operated by the large corpor; IT. tions, in this immediate vicinity.
 There is nothing more essential
 the efficiency of truck than u l- proper tire equipment. Very few il
 dividual truck owners have made