Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-16 | Page 20 | State-Owned Fleet of White Good Roads Trucks

STATE-OWNED FLEET OF WHITE GOOD ROADS TRUCKS I t -1 . v" " o r I s - v - ' : . . . ... . .- j '- " - ' i B tna poouie may know, piiot o of monster White power wrens, recently purced ior tiie ue of tne state road commissioa, is reproduced by or- j der of Bayard W . MendenhaU, manager of .me WTiite Meter Sales company. ' Tfow to build and maintain eood roads at the lowest possible cost is a question which viiauv interests all fiates today. How to lo the necessary i 'work expeditiously and at the miniinuni cost has strongly appealed to the Utah Btate road commission, i With the practical perfection of the ! truck for all heavy as well as light ; ' tauling the matter of employing tiiis - twentieth century invention for build-1 build-1 inff roads in Utah became a matter of prcat c-onoern to the state board and it was decided to purchase a fleet and distribute them in tho districts where tho greatest amount of road building V was to take place, and in localities where their great efficioncv could be utilized to The best advantage. N ith this idea in view the slate commission com-mission next set out to select the best truck for the purpose. "aturallv thev turned to the monster White " Goo'd Roads truck, with its inigktv six-ton load capacity, its twenty-inch roar treads and its staunch angle iron steel 1 chassis. 'Die big truck h:;s r-any distinct advantages ad-vantages that are ra.-iiy ret-onrib-od by the average highway br.ilder. It has :: ta tacit v up to six tors a: a speed oi fron. four to eii-'ht miles an hu'jx and is built with a power damping body reirulaied tn discharge its load in thirty seconds. The body can be elevated to any desired angle up to 4-5 degrees and the truck can be driven forward or backward, spreading road material in layers of any desired thickness. The w-ide treads of the truck, w-hich are made out of iron. n-t as a leveler of the material hc-ini: srrcad. Tn this way nuu'li of the work usually done in sur-ra".r: sur-ra".r: a road by the biLT and i-o.-'ly road L-ni.iini,' machine i.- u.-coaip!ir.ed i'V the Kle truck and in one operation. L is tlio pi;tn of the state road commission, com-mission, it is aaaJ to ilaco ono of the new trucks in Cache county, another in Summit rounty and two trucks to be kept in the vicinity of Salt Lake. It is quite probable that all four trucks will be used in The phins now formulating for constructing new and substantial highways in several sections of the state. The trucks "will be under the supervision super-vision of Ira R. Browning, state road engineer. Truck Xo. 1, shown in the photo loaded with baled hav, has been :n service for some weeks in this city. All four trucks are now available for instant service in the road building E'laoia of the state commission