Transportation Industry
Antique Brockway-Mack Truck Delivers Tree To U.S. Capitol From Vermont for Christmas
Transport Topics, December, 2007 by McMahon, Amy
The U.S. Capitol's Christmas tree, a 55-foot balsam fir from Vermont, arrived in Washington, D.C., late last month, hauled by an antique Brockway-Mack truck.
Driver Fred Beauchamp of North Clarendon, Vt., owner of the 1971 Brockway, was a driver for 43 years before retiring in 2000. The journey from Somerset, Vt., to Washington, D.C., was "a last hurrah," Beauchamp said.
The tree and 80 companion trees were hauled by the Green Mountain "Bull Dawgs," a group of antique Mack Truck owners and a chapter of the Antique Truck Club of America, in a caravan of 15 antique Mack trucks, said the chapter's president, Dave Zsido.
Brockway Motor Co. was operated by Mack Trucks from 1956 until its closing in 1977.
"It's a distinctive honor to actually haul the tree to...
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