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This is working anthracite ground rather than former anthracite ground. Greenwood sits 1.11 miles west with 42 people on the books at the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and a second mine 2.25 miles west carries 40 — both under Lehigh Anthracite Coal, which also holds Little Italy 7.32 miles east with 31.

Around those three the operations get much smaller: a breaker 3.02 miles south with 5 people, Premium Fine Coal 3.83 miles south-west with 6, the Nesquehoning Bank 4.31 miles north-east with 16, and a breaker 5.46 miles north-west with a single employee.

So there are two quite different employers here — a company running crews of thirty to forty, and a scatter of one-to-six-person operations working banks and breakers. A truck came off one or the other and they are not the same fleet.

That is why the small operations exist at all. Under 25 Pa. Code ch. 77 surface noncoal mining includes extraction from waste or stock piles, pits or banks as well as directly from the ground, so a refuse bank being re-worked is an operation in its own right and appears as one.

The permit tiers follow the same logic, and they apply across Schuylkill County. A small noncoal permit restricts extraction to 5 acres and 2,000 tons a calendar year while a large permit is unrestricted, which is a sharp line between a one-owner operation and an industrial fleet — and it is roughly the line the employment figures here fall on either side of.

It matters for reading a truck. A machine off a bank job has done low-volume, high-cycle work on unmade ground; a machine off a forty-person mine has run a scheduled operation with a maintenance department behind it.

Those unmade roads show up in the bridge data sharply. Within 10 miles the National Bridge Inventory records only 111 structures — a thin network by this state’s standards — but 16 of them are posted for load, seven township, six county and three state.

That is a high share, and Schuylkill County itself posts 13 of the 60 bridges it maintains. The nearest posted crossing is 1.70 miles west and clears 41.0 US tons, but the tightest is 7.0 tons 6.94 miles away on a county bridge, which takes no commercial vehicle at all.

So route choice here is real work rather than a formality. A loaded coal truck has a limited set of ways off this ground, and a truck that spent its life on it very often ran part loaded.

Those short hauls off unmade ground leave a particular pattern. Coal is loaded on pit floors and refuse banks rather than on hardstanding, so suspension, tyres and body floor take more than the odometer suggests, and the cycle count runs well ahead of the distance.

Anthracite is also harder and denser than bituminous coal, and the Lehigh Anthracite workings 1.11 miles west and 2.25 miles west are both loading it, which changes how it abrades a body. A truck that carried it tends to show wear at the tailgate, the body floor and the hoist mount rather than the even scuffing of an aggregate hauler.

And with the yard 1.94 miles south-west, a fair number of loads here ended at rail rather than at a customer, which is a short repetitive lane and shows as clutch and driveline hours.

Tell us which it was. A truck off a forty-person operation usually comes with records and a replacement cycle behind it; a truck off a two-person bank job usually does not, and neither of those is a mark against it.

• Bank jobs are hard on a body and a suspension, and we take that as read rather than as damage.
• It ran part loads most of its life.The country, not the truck. With 16 posted crossings in a circle of 111 structures, and the tightest 6.94 miles out, plenty of lanes here never took a full load.
• It is up a haul road rather than a street.Normal in Schuylkill County and not a problem.

A bank job finishes or a permit lapses, and the two or three trucks bought for it come off together because there is no next contract to move them to.

Between Greenwood 1.11 miles west and the Nesquehoning Bank 4.31 miles north-east they turn up steadily.