TOWN LIFE PT18

A Shell Oil tanker rolls down Main St., headed to the gas station -there actually is still a gas station downtown!

More vehicles on the road downtown. It's lunchtime!

After twenty years, this old Peterbilt is still going strong! Previously seen in the 80's pulling a 48' container on a chassis, she's now pulling one of the 53' containers of today into downtown.

Two more veterans of the 80's. The Ford L900 is still pulling trailers between Hillsdale and the Uniontown intermodal yard; rather than retire it and buy a new truck, the owner bought a new engine instead and saved about 50 Grand! The Chevy pickup belongs to local handyman Bill Wilson, who keeps it in top shape -new trucks are expensive, even if they are just pick-ups!

One new truck in town is this one - a newly delivered Volvo semi-tractor pulls a set of equally new 28' pup trailers into town. UPS Freight was formed when UPS purchased Overnight Trucking Co; the grey represents the Overnight heritage. This rig is headed to the former Overnight terminal in town, though normally "double-bottoms" don't pass through town due to the tight turns that have to be made -as this driver is about to find out!