Truckster! 3

This 1944 Dodge has been parked along a North Fork highway for some time.  Here’s the story.

From the load on this truck parked in Battery Park City, you can tell the season.

All these wheels distribute the weight of a wheelless Cat 854K Wheel Dozer.

Farther down the highway, might these be the wheels, three of them at least?

 

The Mammoet mobile is headed to a location where weight needs distributing as it moves.  Click here for previous Mammoet references in this blog.

Then there are trucks like this Ford with –I think–some parts from the late 40s and others from the mid-50s and who knows what else.

Does the 0000 on the placard mean this tank is empty?

This is what International pickups looked like around the time I was born.  Kudzu seems to have colonized this one.

These Macks, a far cry from what was produced locally a century ago,  move salt to a mountain

from a ship  over in Port Newark.  Here’s a National Geographic video partly filmed on Staten Island.

And finally, driving this late 40s COE Chevy transporting some pungent fertilizer is my father, who would have turned 90 this week.

I’ve only ideas about who took the last photo, dated four years before I was born.  All others here by Will Van Dorp.