Around here the ground is cement and limestone. A white cement plant sits 10.6 miles off, a clay and shale operation 10.1 miles away, the Roosevelt Avenue Quarry 11.6 miles out with 15 people and a white cement works 13.1 miles away with 48.
Nearer than any of those, the Wrightsville Quarry works limestone 3.9 miles off with 18 people, and the Landisville Quarry 6.5 miles away at Mount Joy.
Between two cities and belonging to neither
That mix reflects where this borough sits. It is 10.8 miles from the centre of York and 14.0 miles from Lancaster, so it lies between two markets rather than inside either.
The rail follows the same pattern. Two yards sit about ten miles off at York, a third 13.4 miles away at West York, a rail logistics terminal 13.5 miles out and another yard 13.0 miles away at Lancaster.
For a truck that means the work is not local in the way a quarry town is local. A day here is a run to one city or the other rather than a shuttle round a pit, and the trucks are specced accordingly.
Box trucks and curtain-siders off the board, flatbeds and day cabs, dumps off the stone, rollbacks, straight trucks, service bodies and pickups.
Palletised board is light and damages easily, so the trucks that carry it are kept tidier than quarry trucks and often have more life in the driveline than the mileage suggests. Between the Wrightsville Quarry 3.9 miles off and York 10.8 miles away, both kinds of work run out of the same borough.
- Around the Wrightsville Quarry the same borough turns out both kinds and we buy either.
- It is a box truck rather than a tractor unit.The offer does not depend on which.
A plant changes a distribution contract and the trucks that served it are surplus at once. That happens on the board side more than on the stone side.
The rest is the ordinary run of it between York 10.8 miles off and Lancaster 14.0 miles away — retirements, estates, and fleets renewing themselves.