Clinton County
A mill that runs its own trucks, which almost none of them do
The North American Millers’ Association’s mill map lists a flour mill under this borough; Snavely’s Mill describes it as family owned and operated since 1875, and LancasterOnline as one of the oldest continually operated mills in North America. The thing that matters here is not its age: it ships on a company-owned truck fleet, from this site and from its mill at Lititz.
A miller that runs its own trucks has a fleet, a replacement cycle and a disposal practice. That is a more direct connection between a mill and a used-truck market than any amount of tonnage would give you, and it is rare — most mills hand the freight to somebody else entirely.
The published figures are company totals, not this site
Those figures are worth quoting carefully. The company publishes a milling capacity of 19,200 hundredweight of flour a day and wheat storage of 870,000 bushels, and it publishes them readily.
Both are COMPANY totals across its mills and neither is apportioned to any one site. The Lititz mill is described as the larger. So nothing here tells you how much moves through this borough — the products are soft wheat flour, rye flours and meals.
The mill itself sits 6.34 miles from the Census centre of this borough.
Limestone, mostly over in Centre County
Beyond the mill the ground is stone. The Salona Plant works limestone 5.6 miles off with 13 people, Con-Stone 9.0 miles away at Aaronsburg with 12, and two rail yards on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics sit about nine miles out carrying one city’s name between them.
Further on, the Curtin Gap Quarry works 11.5 miles away with 18 people, and the Pleasant Gap Aggregate Plant 14.0 miles away carries 51 — the largest payroll within fifteen miles on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s record.
Most of that is in Centre County rather than this one, so a loaded run out of this borough crosses a county line early and answers to a different posting authority when it does.
Bulk flour tankers and box trucks off the mill, dumps off the stone, flatbeds and day cabs, rollbacks, service bodies and pickups.
Flour moves in dry bulk or in bagged pallets and both are gentler on a body than aggregate, so a truck off a mill fleet is usually in better order than its mileage suggests. Between the Salona Plant 5.6 miles off and the Pleasant Gap Aggregate Plant 14.0 miles away, the stone trucks are a different story and we look at them differently.
- Between the Salona Plant 5.6 miles off and the Curtin Gap Quarry 11.5 miles away it is a common history.
- It is a bulk tanker rather than a tipper.The offer does not depend on the class.
A fleet with a replacement cycle sells trucks that are sound rather than finished, on a schedule, and that is most of what comes off a mill.
The rest is the ordinary run of it, from Aaronsburg 9.0 miles off to the Curtin Gap Quarry 11.5 miles away — retirements, estates and contracts that ended.