. Water & sewage works . Fierce-Ar-row Truck. A fair idea of the service given is ob-tained from the record of one truck fromFebruary 20 to March 19, inclusive. Dur-ing this period of twenty-eight days, in-cluding four Sundays, the truck made535 trips aggregating 1,592 miles. As thebody has a capacity of four cubic yards,this truck hauled between 6,000 andG,500 yards of material In the month. Itmade no trips on two Sundays and onlynine trips on each of the other two. From 4 to 4i-> minutes are required toload the trucks with the contents of twoof the two-yard tunnel cars, and onlyabout 2% m
. Water & sewage works . Fierce-Ar-row Truck. A fair idea of the service given is ob-tained from the record of one truck fromFebruary 20 to March 19, inclusive. Dur-ing this period of twenty-eight days, in-cluding four Sundays, the truck made535 trips aggregating 1,592 miles. As thebody has a capacity of four cubic yards,this truck hauled between 6,000 andG,500 yards of material In the month. Itmade no trips on two Sundays and onlynine trips on each of the other two. From 4 to 4i-> minutes are required toload the trucks with the contents of twoof the two-yard tunnel cars, and onlyabout 2% minutes to dump the four-yardload by crane at the fill. Aside fromthese short waits, about the only otherloss of time is occasioned by waiting foranother truck to get out of the way,which does not occur often and is ofshort duration. Running time averages10 minutes. A full round trip occupiesan average of one-half hour. By the use of motor trucks the opera-tors have gained a great deal of time be- 32 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING. MOTOR TRUCK BODY IS REMOVABLESKIP BUCKET. A five-ton Saurertruck, with body handled by a cranetoith a derrick boom. sides effecting a dollars and cents savingestimated at 20 to 25 per cent. This isimportant, because the huge task mustbe finished by the end of next year. Ac-tual records of the ?work of one of thefive-ton Saurer trucks on this job, ac-cording to the manufacturers, show thatthe cost of haulage with it was 29 centsper cubic yard as against a cost of 80cents per yard by horses, or a saving of63% per cent. This truck is shown ina photograph. Aside from the advantages to the con-tractors, this truck service is a greatboon to the city. If the contractors usedhorses, they would need to use at least four or five times as many teams bothday and night, with the resultant conges-tion of traffic and inconvenience to thepublic in a busy section of the metropolis. Smith, Hauser & Locker Co., who havethe contract for another section of theaqueduct, nearly four
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