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Title: Engineering and Contracting
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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g with the newer trucks. One of the older trucks was driven by anIndian who lived on the desert. He learne;!to drive shortly after work on the contracthad commenced, and he drove 60 round tripsof 80 to 110 miles each without a single mis-hap or loss of a minute from the schedulewhich had been mapped out for his truck.He was paid 50 cts. per hour and he drove16 hours a day every day for 00 days. Noother driver was able to stand the heat orfatigue as well as this native Indian. Of the ten trucks hauling material out ofLancaster, the contractor planned to have twolaid up all the time for adjustments, repairs,lubrication, overhauling, etc. Eighty per centof the equipment was on the road all thetime and 20 per cent was in the temporarygarage which was built at Lancaster to main-tain the trucks on this job. The cost of op-erating the trucks was 50 per cent more thanunder normal conditions, but as the roadswere generally soft the tire costs were lessthan average. One of the facts brought out
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Fig. 1. Motor Truck Loaded With Oil-Line Pipe for Transportation Across a California Desert. sells at $35 a ton, making tlie cost of feedinga mule not less than $1 a day. Furthermore,the death rate among the nudes, ihu- \n licit.was excessive. The principal material hauled was 8-in.screw-joint line pipe. As shown in the viewof one of the loaded trucks, Fig. 1, the pipeswere lashed to the sides of the car so thatthe drivers could quickly drop them alongthe roadside. Considerable Portland cementand fiat steel plates for constructing oil tanksand various kinds of material for power houseconstruction were transported in the usualmanner on the platform bodies of the cars.Extra gasoline, oil and water were carried in10-gal. milk cans. Blankets and enough foodand water to last two days formed a part ofeach load. This equipment was often neces-sary. Although the temperature ran as highas 122° F. in the shade in daytime, it wasvery cold at night on account of the highaltitudes which were reac

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