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The motor pool is a completely centralized and mechanized operation.
It handles all types of vehicle maintenance, but concentrates more on `` service station activities '' than on extensive vehicle repairs.
It contracts with outside repair garages for much of the latter work.
Where the pool excels is in its compilation of maintenance and cost-data studies and analyses.
Pool records reveal in detail the cost per mile and miles per gallon of each vehicle, the miles traveled in one year or three years, the periods when vehicle costs become excessive, and when cars should be traded for sound economies.
From this, motor pool personnel develop other meaningful and related data.
In 1959-60, vehicles averaged an operating cost of $.027 per mile.
Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.
They estimate further that with sufficient experience and when cost-data of compact cars is compiled, the break-even point may be reduced to 7,500 miles of travel per year.
Table 2 shows operating cost data of state vehicles selected at random.

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