1972 November Overdrive Trucker Trucking Magazine

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1972 November Overdrive Trucker Trucking Magazine - Mercedes-Benz Trucks CONTENTS REGULAR HAUL:6 Our Readers Write34 Advertisers’ Index73 O VERDRIVE Date Master - Truckers ’ Calendar for November87 It’s The Law87 Truckers and the LawExplanation of ROADMASTER ServicesTractor of the MonthDump Truck of the MonthSmall Fleet of the MonthWrecker of the MonthModel of the MonthWhat’s New?Truckin’ AroundTruckers’ TurntableTruck Stop DirectoryClassified AdsOVERDRIVE Collectors’ IssuesOVERDRIVE Subscription FormARTICLESDORSEY BURNETTEPAGE 11441 What is TR UCK ’N STUFF?70 TRUCKERS’ OPPOSITION CRIPPLES S. 2362. SenatorVance Hartke Leads Fight to Save Bill Amid Charges ofInfluence-Peddling107OVERDRIVE Salutes the Truck Stop Waitress108It’s Happy Truckin’ for the Winners of White’s SweepstakesContest113 It’s Operation Fogbound Time Again113Diesels Are Best114Meet DORSEY BURNETTE116Down With the Garageman’s Lien!EDITORIAL:54 A CUP OF COFFEE AND A PIECE OF PIE. OVERDRIVELaunches New Strategy on Behalf of Truckers. “Truckers’Watchdog” in Washington to Become Reality COVERSTORY:Our cover combines a notable lack of frills, butcould “beauty and the beast” be any fancier thanNovember’s candidate for the eye of America’s longdistance truckers?The GMC is courtesy of General Motors Corpora-tion. We picked it as a typical workhorse that has abuilt-in beauty that only a trucker could admire.Pretty Stephanie Enskat hails from Flint, Michigan.Her father is Plant Production Manager for one ofGM’s factories near Pontiac, Michigan. You can seemore of Stephanie in the “Date Master” section, andmore of tills GMC tractor in the December issue,where we perform one of our famous “TractorDissection Reports.” SPECIAL REPORTS:STEEL HAULINGPAGE 42MERCEDES-BENZ TRUCKSPAGE 74Fraud and Kickback Charges to be Filed Involving SeveralCentral States Pension Fund LoansNIXON WINS Truckers’ Presidential PollTHE WAIT-AROUND-THEN-RUSH-ABOUTBusiness ofSteel Hauling GERMAN INVASION COMING! Mercedes-Benz Trucks-Will They Ever Capture American Market? Factory Tourof Europe’s Biggest Truck Maker Walking through the Mercedes-Benz truck assembly plant in Worth,Germany is like taking a mini-tourof Germany itself, and, for a truck-er, it’s just as fun. The factory,employing 6,000 uniformed work-ers, is not just clean, as you wouldexpect from this huge German com-pany, but immaculate. You wouldn’twant to eat off the floor for tworeasons. One is that you woulddirty the floor, and the secondreason being that the company pro-vides a most adequate cafeteria foranyone caring to avail themselves ofthe local cuisine which, while good,is not up to the standards of theMercedes-Benz truck. But, then,most vehicles built in the world arenot up to the standards of theMercedes-Benz. How could theybe, after all? There is only oneMercedes-Benz, and neither theengineers nor the sales people willlet you forget it.Not that you could, especiallyafter touring one or more of themany plants that house the engineer-ing genius of the Daimler-Benzpeople.But, for the purposes of thisarticle, we are going to look atMercedes-Benz not as a well-knowncompany that builds the world’s' finest cars, but as a potential com-petitor to the American truck manu-I facturers.They aren’t, yet, but they soonj will be if the Daimler-Benz group! is able to absorb the demands of' the American market.( That shouldn’t be too difficult,i after all, for Mercedes-Benz trucks| are sold in 126 countries around theS world. And each country has its» own ideas about lighting, brakes,' tires and other “fringe” areas thathelp to keep Mercedes-Benz pro-bably the most flexible truck manu-* facturer in the world.j The parent company, Daimler-j Benz AG (which is the GermanL' equivalent of a publicly-owned com-pany, similar to our own “Incor-r porated” firms that sell shares onthe market) has been in businessfor a long, long time.In the United States, most truckmanufacturing companies are sixtyto seventy years old. Back in 1896,Daimler, the original partner ofco-inven tor Benz, built the firstmotor truck. This was seventeenyears after Benz first fired up atwo-stroke experimental engine, anda full ten years after the fledglingorganization installed engines inboats, railed vehicles and air ships-... And much more!

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