The Delaware corner
Fourteen people on a quarry in the corner of three states
Fourteen is a working crew, and the country it works in is a corner rather than a district.
Dingmans Ferry Stone lies about 8.7 miles south-west and Holbert Quarry about 12.4 miles north-west. Either way it is thin country by Pennsylvania standards.
A ten-mile circle drawn from three state files
That corner shows up directly in how the road network has to be counted. Within ten miles of this quarry there are 112 structures — 70 from Pennsylvania, 30 from New York and 12 from New Jersey — because the circle crosses two state lines.
Seven of the 112 are coded posted for load and seven are coded below legal loads, only two of them county-maintained.
The county figure describes a third of the problem
Those township authorities are also why a county number understates things here. Pike County restricts 11 township-maintained structures against seven of its own, and neighbouring Monroe County 13 against four.
So a page quoting only the county figure would describe between a quarter and a third of the restricted local network, and it is the sharpest form of that pattern anywhere in this state. It is not that townships own worse bridges — there are simply more of them.
For a hauler that is a practical difference rather than a statistical one: it decides how many offices a lane has to satisfy before a loaded truck moves, and each of them can ask for its own bond.
A truck running between the Milford Quarry and Dingmans Ferry Stone 8.7 miles south-west has crossed the restricted structures on those lanes part loaded, because a 15.4-tonne cap admits about 4.4 tonnes of stone over an empty tandem’s tare. Springs and hoist show that before the engine does.
- Ordinary in this corner, and the crossing that limits a load out of the Milford Quarry is a New Jersey one.
Between Holbert Quarry about 12.4 miles north-west and Dingmans Ferry Stone they turn up steadily.