Show study shows cost of hauling cream to plant the pound of butter on the dining table includes in its price a cost of cents for hauling a pound of butterfat from farm to creamery this cost feature was among those facts discovered in a creamery truck operation study conducted by bv R W bartlett Ba assistant chief in agricultural ri economics and G W freemyer assistant in agricultural agricultural economics college of agriculture university of illinois operating cooperating co in the study were the owners and operators of 14 trucks hauling cream in central illinois excluding labor the average cost a mile for operating the 14 trucks was cents costs for gasoline tires lubrication and repairs were about three fourths of the total cost of truck operation largest single expense item was found to be gasoline which represented per cent of the cost of cents a mile tires repairs and lubrication amounted to 26 per cent of the total fixed costs were relatively low because of the high mileage for each truck which averaged about miles over an 11 month period |