Keep On Truckin'

This past weekend was the 32nd Annual Truck Show hosted by the Hudson Mohawk Chapter of the American Truck Historical Society, held each year at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds in Ballston Spa. This also always includes a car corral, tractors, and engines, and lots and lots of vendors. Although there weren't quite as many small engines, there was still row after row of trucks, making this a great event.

Dave brought up his 1956 Panzer tractor and pulled one of our wagons around the grounds on Saturday. 

The Divco milk truck was also on display for the second year and was a huge hit, especially when Dave would start it by hand cranking it. 

Here are several of the displays we saw. Hopefully they aren't repeat photos from previous years.

This Brockway carried Christmas trees to the nation's capitol. 

How low can you go?

The cab on this truck had to be manually raised with the bar crank that is sticking out of the side.

The rotator crane was gigantic on this tow truck that could handle just about anything... 

Older sleeper cab on this 1950 White...

It may say Mini Mack, but it was a pretty big monster truck.

This fleet of Mack trucks was gorgeous!

A perfect 1949 Ford delivery truck that makes quite the impression...

This highly polished unusual dump truck carries tiny glass beads for Corning and also does double duty transporting road salt. The dump body doesn't just lift up, the whole trailer lifts up. The entire rig is 65 ft. long going down the road and can weigh up to 107,000 lbs. loaded.

This Rat Road was called the 'Last Resort Fire Department.'

Dave's grandfather and father's septic and well tile business started with a truck just like this 1935 International. In fact, we have an engine cover panel just like this that is left over from when they scrapped the rest of the truck.

What a wild Seagrave fire engine!

This Dodge D 37 Power Wagon forestry truck was pristine.

More trucks being featured under cover...

Those are brand new tractors on this patriotic tractor trailer.

This Rat Rod truck looked to have a Halloween theme going on with an animated skeleton coyote in the back. 

Our shows are winding down for the season now, although there are still a few more on the calendar. We hope the weather holds up for next weekend's wet meet at Schroon Lake, where we are anxious to show off 'Flash'!