Juniata County
Twelve restricted crossings, and the county maintains none of them
The Mine Safety and Health Administration records 7 employees at a limestone quarry 1.70 miles from the Census centre, held by Jay Fulkroad and Sons.
In this county there is no county figure to quote at all: 9 township-maintained structures fail on load against none of the county’s. A page citing a county restriction rate here would be describing nothing.
The nearest of the twelve is 1.72 miles away. The lowest rating among them is about twelve US tons and the lowest that clears the commercial floor about twenty-four, so the practical question on a loaded run is which township road you take rather than what the general limit says.
The nearest comparable works is fourteen miles off
Beyond the township roads, the isolation is the fact. The nearest other operation of any size the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists is the Paxtonville Quarry, 14.0 miles away in Snyder County with 22 people — three times this quarry’s payroll and the next thing of its kind in any direction.
For a truck that means long empty legs. Work does not come from a ring of gates a few miles out, the way it does in the limestone belt to the south; it comes from one pit and from farms, and the running between them is real distance on small roads.
It also means a thin local second-hand market. There is no fleet next door to absorb a truck that stops suiting the work here.
A truck here has usually done farm work and quarry work both, and between this pit and the Paxtonville Quarry 14.0 miles off it has done them on township roads rather than trunk routes. That lands on suspension and steering more than on the odometer.
- The usual history here, between Jay Fulkroad and Sons and the farms around it, and out to the Paxtonville Quarry 14.0 miles off.