Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 30 | N. W. Parker of Elko Buys Another White Truck

N. V. PARKER OF ELKO BUYS ANOTHER WHITE TRUCK I - '. - ' - v k'4 ' AJ I I ' . 'J '1 1Z lAM" ELK0 V, U I f TRUCK ' . A repeat order is the surest indication indica-tion of the satisfaction which any commodity com-modity has given the purchaser. The White company of Cleveland in alk of their advertising and publicity make a strong feature of the number of repeat orders for their trucks. The last issue is-sue of the Roll Call, which contains a list of their principal, truck installations, installa-tions, claims that they now have in service ser-vice 2153 fleets, aggregating 23,226 trucks, or an average of approximately approximate-ly eleven trucks per customer, exclusive exclu-sive of all single installations. The latest addition to Mr. Parker's White truck fleet is a five-ton special ore hauling truck, which is produced by the Miite company to meet conditions condi-tions in this western country where narrow canyon roads and dugways are encountered on most ore hauls. The special feature of this truck is the tread of the rear wheels. They are fifty-eight inches from center to center cen-ter of tires, whereas most standard five-ton trucks are seventy-two inches or more between center of rear tires. This fifty-eight-inch center feature gives the White ore truck a decided advantage ad-vantage since the rear wheels track in the standard wagon tracks. There is no danger of the wheels striking . obstruction ob-struction on narrow passes or crushing the outer edge of the road on canyon dugways. The trucks pull much easier and the tires wear longer. Another feature of this ore truck is its power dump. A two-inch horizontal screw running parallel with the chassis can be thrown in gear with the transmission. trans-mission. By driving this screw in one direction the heavy nut on it is drawn forward, pulling with it chains which elevate the body and dump the load; driving the screw in the opposite direction direc-tion lowers the body. This straight mechanical me-chanical dump is simplicity itself, and obviates all the difficulty usually encountered en-countered with other forms of dumns. Mr. Parker has been engaged in tne freight hauling business at Elko for two years, during which period he has used three different makes of trucks. Last fall he purchased a White one and one-half ton truck, and it was the splendid splen-did service given by this truck which brought him into Salt Lake to buy the bigger one. "?The White one and a half ton truck is surely a wonder truck," he declared while in Salt Lake last week. "I can easily understand why the government should adopt it as the standard army truck, as I understand thev have recently re-cently done. The kind of 'roads thev operate over and the loads which thev carry soon tests the mettle of any truck. I did not fully appreciate the quality in my White one and half tonnet for three or four months, until I had gotten got-ten in to and out of places that I did not think it possible for a truck to negotiate. ne-gotiate. I have driven the truck seventy-five hundred miles and have never been hung up on the road once. I am 1 in the transportation business to stay ; and I have standardized on Whites.''