Arizona republican., 1921-01-30
Wonderful MiIeageS ShosOn By White
 Trucks In SerUice

Five years from now. thIs motor truck will be off the roads, hence il must also be off our books.
 Thus, arbitrarily, the cost accountant was formerly wont to give any new motor truck which his employer might purchase five years to toll. depreciate and finally disappear, after having re- turned it's original cost, subsequent up- keep and a tidy surplus for profit.
 So far. so good. But five years later the error in such an inflexible cost sys- tenn became apparent, for the motor truck, if it was good truck, refused to retire from active duty despite the fact that, theoretically, it's working days were over.
 In fact so many trucks that went into service 10 years ago are still work ing and earning. years after they have written their original cost off the books, that a few cost accountants have chosen to measure truck longevity by miles rather than years. Age yielded to mileage as the unit of measure 100000 miles was considered a liberal allowance for a truck
 But once more matters were com plicated by the good trucks, for SC many of them rounded the 100 ,000- mile post and kept right on going that the record ceased to excite Wonderment. For instance, the White company of Cleveland, in it's annual tahulation of letters from owners testifying that they operate White trucks which have eX- ceeded 100 GOO miles and are still on the roads. announces that 533 Whites still iu service are known to have travelled 100000 miles: 106 additional Whites have exceeded 10000 miles; 94 are somewhere on the 200o00 to s00,000 miles lap: while p trucks have forged ahead of the field. well beyond the 300, 000-mile mark. The figures in each group are approximately double those revealed by the 1919 tabulation.
 In half a hundred lines of business and in all sections of the country these veteran motor trucks have piled un ltheir high mileages. Warriors of the heavy type duty vie with ninble de- ] livery trucks for places of distinction on the honor roll l Prom San Francisco. Charles W. ! Dixon of the Dixon Transfer and Stof- Fage company, writes: Three of our ! Whites have gone 275.00e miles each, one 465 900 miles and the other over 500.000 miles. This last truck had done I 200. GOO miles for the Standard Oil com i pany before we bought it and for seven i years it has been in continuous servicc for us, running from north 10 south Of i California;
 ] One of a quartet of Whites has eclipsed 500, GOO miles for the Columbus tohio) Bread company. 4 two-ton supply truck has rolled up 313,00o miles for the Humptnlips Logging company Of Aberdeen. Wash. The Fuller Dry Cleaning company of Cleveland. White users for 12 years have one delivery truck that has rounded out 800, o0( miles two more tied at 240.0o0 miles and another that has completed 150, coo miles
 Numerous instances might be cited of whole fleets of 100 000-miie trucks at work in single installations In tht delivery fleet of Gimbel Brothers. New York. are 25 Whites that have dons llo0.00n miles. Twenty-two Whites 1T the fleet of the 'Sohulzc Baking com, panN or Chicago, Cincinnati kansa. City and Omaha. are 100000 milers Every unit in the original fleet of ths Bradford Baking company of Los Aa. gelos has gone 100000 miles. Tn, White Transit company Of Plymouth Pa. Serves the mining region in tn vicinity of Wiil5esbarre with fleet e
 White trucks. 1s of which are loo QUO
 milers, nine having startcd toward th
 0000-mile post.
 One hundred thousand IS only nom
 inal mileage for buses That mark hs-
 been passed by 15 Whites owned by th
 Emericl1 Motor Bus Line company
 Beliefonte Pa, by 10 Whites of tn
 Twin City Motor Bus company, Che
 halls. Wash by five Of inc Highwa 2 Transit company's trucks at Cantor Ohio; five of the Madero- Fresno stage
 at Madero. Cal. and others.
 T Officials of the Zanesville 6Ohio - Fruit company praise the dependabilit 5 and durability Of their 10-year- -ol : White that has rolled ID 125,000 mile r and is still ia service. Two veteran of 1910-1911 vintage are still workin
 earlv and late for W. r. Southwort'
 Cleveland grocer. Tn the meat busine,
 seven 100o00-milers are enrolled in tl
 Cleveland Provision company's flee
 The five-ton White purchased l5y Peti
 AIcCabe. building material dealer, ws
 the first heavy duty truck to sta . working in Albany E. Y. A few monti
 later, MT MeCabe added a threezfC
 White. Today each truck has ticlJs F off more than 100000 miles.
 8 Two veteran trucks have pulled oy a 100,e00 miles of hiily, coal mining eoul o try for tho Steueenville (0hio) Go
 and Mining company All three Of q
 Whites purchased by the Herrmai