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Advertorial COVER STORY Thermo Hog: Thermoplastic striping truck Crisp thermoplastic lines pumped through the new Hog Pump Most thermoplastic longline trucks come with up to 9 different burners on their trucks, but the Thermo Hog only uses 1 single burner. This thermo truck comes with two Hog Melters instead of the standard four; each one being able to melt 8,000 lbs. of thermoplastic per hour. That’s 16,000 lbs. per hour with both col- www.callape.com New Hog Pumps being built for customer retrofits ors! This allows for continuous operation at speeds up to 5 MPH. Speaking of speed, the Thermo Hog comes with Hog Speed Control which allows you to set the forward speed of the vehicle, eliminating the need to keep looking back and forth between the cross- hairs and the speedometer. This drasti- [8] cally reduces the margin for error when striping, allowing the operator to focus on laying perfectly straight lines. The Thermo Hog also comes with a conveyor belt loading system which al- lows a single worker to load material into the Hog Melter at waist height, reduc- ing the amount of manpower it takes to 1.800.210.5923