Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — HIGHWAY TRUCKS ARE ON WAT [ARTICLE]

HIGHWAY TRUCKS ARE ON WAT

Supt. Folsom Gets Four Big “Quade” as a Beginning. Sub-District State Highway Supt. Folsom, accompanied by D. J. Babcock, Earl Hemphill, Wallace Miller and Stewart Moore, went to Indianapolis Thursday night tp drive back four big Quad trucks for use on this division of the IndianapollsChioago road. Each sub-district will have 10 big trucks to handle the repair work. These trucks are especially fitted up for this work and good jobs await a man for each truck as driver and worker on the roads, the drivers being expected to handle a shovel the same as any other employe when not at the wheel that is, he is supposed to assist in loading and unloading his truck. It is understood that the pay of drivers will be $4 per day of 10 hours. The truck drivers must be reliable men as they will have a certain amount of responsibility, probably being classed as patrolmen over a certain number of miles of road and likely have in ■ charge one or more men. According to Indianapolis papers Mr. Folsom’s headquarters will be at Crown Point. z He will be provided with a light car, which he will drive himself, by the highway commission in looking after the district assigned to him.