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(Kalamazoo, mi) (616)385-5400 Eaton serves the Southwest. (Tuisa,cx) (918)622-0880 i ; Eaton serves Canada. (Maiton, Ontario) (416)678-2497 . Circle 30 on Inquiry Card COMMERCIAL CAR JOURNAL Jun 1978 57 Proven Economy: Eaton DS-380 'fendemDrive Axles Fleet test results: Eaton8 DS380 maintenance cost per mile $.00105 or $105.00 per 100,000 milesl Cost Per Mile $.00350 Industry avera 9* O daitoira PS3S0 $.00300 $.00250 $.00356/1Utile (400 to 5130,000 Milesl $nr7Q/ii llln (300 to 400,000 Miles) $.00200 $.00150 $.00100 $.00104/11 lie (100 to 200,000 Miles) $.00153/1 file (200 to 3C10,000 Miles) $.00050 ___ .Pafton 8051 0 100,000 Average Miles Per Truck Copyright BtenCofM*t>on. IWt . Mat* 200,000 300,000 1. 400,000 Since 1972, Eaton has been testing the DS380 with six fleets (980 tractors). Results show that main tenance costs are less than one third the industry's average.* `Based on study tor RCCC Maintenance Committee of ATA published In April, 1977. The Eaton DS380 can save you money on axlfe maintenance costs, leaving you more profit-per-mile. For more information and test details, write: Eaton Corporation, Axle Division, 739 East 140th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44110. Eaton Family of Tandem Axles for Heavy Duty Trucks Axle Capacity (Lbs.) GCW up to...(Lbs.) 34,000 90,000 38,000 130,000 40,000 140,000 Single Speed DS340 DS380 DS400-P Two Speed DT340 DT380 DT400-P Double Reduction DP340 DP380 DP400-P 44,000 155,000 DS440-P DT440-P DP440-P 48,000 170,000 DS480-P DT480-P DP480-P 58,000 180,000 DP580-P 65,000 180,000 DP650-P F;T'N Truck Components Circle 5S on Inquiry Card The Screwdriver Brake. L1418 bears strong family resemblance to Mercedes-Benz trucks currently mar keted in the United States, booster with a 5000-cu in. air com pressor, with spring loaded brake cylinders on the rear wheels. The total brake area is 832 sq in. The front axle capacity is 11,023 lb while the rear axle has a 22,046lb rating. Axle ratio is 4.875. The unit also comes equipped with an engine exhaust brake. | Access to the engine for main ! tenance can be had in two ways: ! from the raised-up engine hood or I by removing the engine "dog- j house" from inside the truck cab. ] The conventional-type cab fea- j tures roof-top ventilation, a driver's seat that moves forward or back as I well as up or down, plus a large windshield that requires three indi vidual wiper blades. The L1418 will be the fourth model available to truck buyers in this country from Mercedes-Benz of North America The other three are | the L1113 and L116, both rated at 1 25,000-lb GVW, and the L1316 rated at 3O,0OO-lb GVW. Bodack said all sales of the L1418, as with the other three models, will be made from dealer inventories. He said he foresaw no problems in ob taining adequate numbers of the L1418 from the parent company't largest foreign-based subsidiary in Sao Paulo. At present, Mercedes-Benz trucks enter the country through two East Coast ports: Newark, N.J. and St. Petersburg, Fla Bodack said consid eration is being given to using Houston as a third port of entry now that a dealer organization has been opened in that part of the country. In discussing his philosophy on the American truck market, Bodack said extensive market studies in dicate a trend by U.S. truck buyers back to conventional type trucks. He cited improved driver environ ment, aerodynamic styling and eas ier access to engine and other run ning parts for repair and main tenance as the reasons for the trend. "We're looking at the market, trying to understand it. Right now, we're staying with what we know. We re staying with a conventionaltype truck Besides," he added, "no cabover models are produced by the Sao Paulo plant. "If we did nothing else since 1968," he added, "we did many studies to understand the U.S. buy er influences. And we know the op erator's buying choices are different in Class 6 than in Class 8." Obviously, Mercedes-Benz offi cials both here and elsewhere see a growing trend towards dieselization in all truck classes as. gasoline fuel prices continue to increase. They do not, however, anticipate selling just their engines alone--at least not in the immediate future. "It would not be to the advan tage of the parent company to sell just engines. We would rather sell the entire truck,'' a company spokesman said. Circle 261 on Inquiry Card The Eaton Single Anchor Pin Brake. Contact: Mr. Gary Kontul Eaton Corporation Brake Division 21220 West Eight Mile Road Southfield, Ml 48037 (313) 354-5030 . m L Mi Components Circle 80 on Inquiry Card COMMi ERCIAL CAR JOURNAL' Jun 1978 1 85