Photos of Pennsylvania Trucks, Buses, RV's and Rivers by Trucker Mike: Page 2

Different moods of the Susquehanna River, once a major transportation route through the center of PA from its mouth at the upper end of the Chesapeake Bay northward. US 15 parallels the river from Sunbury south to Harrisburg. The North Branch passes by Scranton and Wilkes-Barre and the West Branch goes by Williamsport.

Susquehanna River at peace, between Millersburg and Sunbury as seen from US.15.	Late summer low-water time in the Susquehanna River. Can you believe this river used to be a transport route between Harrisburg and Williamsport?	Looking north on Pine Creek, west of Williamsport. This is a popular summer fishing and camping area for local residents.

Central Pennsylvania farmland. Popular crops are corn, wheat or other grains, and various hays for cattle feed. PA is also home to a lot of dairy cows and fruit orchards.	Varied farmland - grain and dairy cows - in south-central Pennsylvania.	Winter farmland filling a valley from I.70, western Pennsylvania.

Residue from Pennsylvania coal mines, before mandatory reclaiming became law.	Mother Nature doing its part to cover the slag heaps in central Pennsylvania.	Leafless winter trees covering hillsides along Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania.

Assignment: 1. Locate the Susquehanna River on a map and name 5 towns or cities it flows through. 2. Name two major PA industries shown on this page. 3. Name 4 major highways that go across PA, either east to west or north to south.

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Most of the trucks I delivered from Pennsylvania, were manufactured (at least the bodies were) at a Grumman - Olsen plant in Montgomery, They build small mail trucks, medium-sized RPS-type walk-in vans, and large Budget Rental trucks with lift gates on the back. The larger trucks were not too bad to drive, although they were uncomfortable to sleep in. The walk-in vans, however, were miserable. The original design guidelines must have specified the noisiest, most uncomfortable vehicle possible so the drivers would deliver their packages as quickly as they could just to get out of the beasts. They rattled like a mobile junkyard, they had no radios (probably because one could not have heard a radio anyway), heat poured from the engine cover in the summer, cold air rushed in around the doors in the winter, and they had a tendency to wander back and forth across the highway unless you kept both hands clamped to the steering wheel at all times. I delivered one of them from PA to western Texas. I think it took me three days to get my hearing back and to stop vibrating. Note the little red vehicle behind many of the trucks and buses. That's my Kia.

I picked up this Isuzu diesel cube van in New Columbia, PA and delivered it to NJ.	From the Grumman plant in Montgomery, PA, I delivered this truck to a Budget Rental office in North Carolina.

This new school bus was delivered to a school district in central New Jersey	I drove this monster from Montgomery to west Texas.