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Heeding pleas of motorists that something be done about nails and sharp metal scraps on the highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate, covers 42 miles per day. By last week it had accumulated more than a half ton of tire-damaging litter, including a pair of scissors...
WTith its Indiana line-an "assembled" product-White is the only truck company that blankets the entire price field. Indianas are priced as low as $695. Big Whites, like the 28-ton tractor-trailer lately delivered to a coal mining company for stripping operations, are virtually custom made and priced accordingly. White's production last year was about 8,000 trucks, 1,000 buses, with a total value of some...
...Friday, Dec. 13, 13 bright yellow vehicles lined up on a Chicago street. Heading the procession was a sedan "scout car," followed by five huge trailers, each pulled by a different kind of actor truck. A second sedan, pulling a mall trailer, brought up the rear. At the heel of the first truck was a stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2), he was leading...
...City. Day later came La Junta, Colo. Then the trucks angled South, climbed over the steep Raton Pass into New Mexico, headed out over the barren Southwest. Rolling drearily along at an average of 22 m.p.h., the drivers worked in six-hour shifts, slept six hours in the small trailer. Only stops were for food, gas & oil, examination of permits at each state line. Ten hours were lost in such formalities. So smoothly did everything go that the caravan rolled into Los Angeles in four and a half days, beat the best railroad freight schedule by 46 hours. On hand...
...truck and trailer of the Gorman Brothers circus rounded a corner in East Orange, N. J., the trailer's cargo, Jap, 50, a gentle, little, four-ton cow elephant, slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said...