Fageol Chief Says Truck Operation Much Saner Than With Passenger Cars

Owners of commercial vehicles have a right to expand their chests with pride when the accident record of trucks is compared with that of pleasure cars, according to T. R' Bill, Sales Manager of the Fageol Motors Company, who in making an analysis of accident rePorts on city streets and country highways in the western stat€s, has discovered that, on an average, ten drivers of pleasure cars are more apt to come to grief than 1000 drivers of trucks.

sonalitv: for motor trucks have become as important in selling as sh6w rvindow displays. This has been shown by thi quick response to Flgeol's introduction of smart .olors "ttd i*ptoved appearaice in all its trucks. The drivers must not only m-eet rigid standards as safety engineers, just as our trucks must meet the most severe tests f-or relia6ility and flexibility, but they must also be able to see the house they represent in their contact with the public.

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"'We find that the number of accidents with Fageol vehicles is almost negligible," Mr. Bill declared,. "yet .there are a good many trfuers of pleasure cars who still go cruisin[ around with the false opinion that truck drivers are a rienace. As far as drivers of Fageol trucks are concerned, they have seven speeds at their control, steel brakes, a responsive motor anda vehicle which can scarcely te thrown out of control. Fageol had a world reputation for its sreat buses, where absolute safety with speed was the first"essential, and it has applied what it learned in building of buses for flexibility and control to the manufacturing of irucks, with the rezult that it revolutionized the truckbuilding industry.

"The"man at tiie wheel of a Fageol has ten times the control of his vehicle than has the average man driving for Dleasure. Besides that, the driver is a man who has been 'selected for his proved ability to handle a car on the highway. He must come up to -much higher tests as a driver than the person at the wheel of a pleasure car. Not. only that, but -he must meet rigid tests as to character and per-

"Then, too, the operation of a truck is a purely,business proposition. A man might keep putting- !fi an- adjustment bf fiis bratces, for instanie, on a car he drives for pleasure, but he would never permit his Fageol to be neglected in anv oart. first becausi it is so essential to his business and r..ond, because Fageol service is so complete and uns-tinted. that there is no e*cuse for not keeping the vehicle at its most efficient point atall times."

The Fageol sales chief pointed out,that all of these reasons are applicable to trucks only,-and not to pleasure cars, and explained why 1000 truck drivers are-le-ss apt to run into trouble on stieets or highways than 10 drivers of passenger cars.

"it is time," he said, "for the world to acknowledge that the motor vehicle for safe commercial transportation is perhaps the greatest single contributing factor to the naiional'prosp.iity tod"y and to recognize that the men who own tiucki and the men who operate them are not only willing, but able, to hold their own in doing a big job with a minimrtm of mishaPs."