Service Areas

Pennsylvania covers roughly 44,700 square miles and 67 counties, and the ground under a truck changes five separate times between the Delaware River and the Ohio line. The southeast corner is coastal plain at Philadelphia rising into the rolling Piedmont of Chester, Lancaster, Berks and York, which is deep, well drained farm ground and the best delivery surface in the state. Behind it stands the Great Valley, a single long limestone trough that carries the Lehigh Valley, the Lebanon Valley and the Cumberland Valley, where carbonate rock sits close under the soil and sinkholes are a normal part of building. West of that the ridges start, long parallel folds running southwest to northeast, and the roads either follow a valley or find a gap through. The Allegheny Front is the hard line: east of it the country is ridge and valley, west of it the whole northern and western half of the state is a dissected plateau, high and cut through by steep hollows rather than folded into ridges. Then the far northwest corner drops to the flat lake plain at Erie. Pennsylvania is close to sixty percent forested, holds more covered bridges and more township maintained road miles than almost any other state, and has 2,560 separate municipalities deciding what happens on those roads. Delivery planning here follows that geology and that patchwork far more closely than it follows the interstate map, because grade, surface and turnaround decide what a truck can actually set down.

Distance from the nearest depot is most of what moves a delivered price, which is why we ask for a ZIP code before quoting. Give us yours, in the form below or by calling (330) 510-5817, and we will confirm the route and the timing for your exact location.

Rural, Remote or Off-Road Property?

We deliver to properties that are not on paved roads, regularly. Tell us the access situation: how long the drive or track is, how tight the turns are, and anything the truck has to cross or pass under. Around here that usually means tar and chip, what Pennsylvania townships spread instead of paving, and what softens under a loaded trailer in July, macadam, the word most Pennsylvanians still use for a paved surface, berm, the Pennsylvania word for the road shoulder, and the first thing that gives way under an outrigger, township road maintained by a township crew rather than the state, which is most of the miles in this state, dirt and gravel road on a township maintenance rotation, seasonal road, not maintained for winter travel, which is a literal sign here and a literal answer to whether we can get in, posted road with a seasonal weight restriction from late winter into spring, weight posted township bridge with a limit low enough to turn a loaded truck around, covered bridge, of which Pennsylvania has more than any other state, nearly all of them posted, one lane iron truss bridge over the run, run, the local word for a small creek, as in the road follows the run the whole way in, crick bottom that stays soft for a week after the rain quits, hollow road with the creek on one side and the bank on the other and no place to turn, gap road through the ridge, as at Wind Gap, Lehigh Gap or Swatara Gap, notch, the local name for the cut a road takes over a mountain shoulder, switchback climbing the Allegheny Front, red dog road, the burned coal refuse western Pennsylvania townships spread on dirt lanes, culm bank, the anthracite waste pile that shapes half the back roads in the Coal Region, boney pile, the bituminous equivalent west of the Alleghenies, reclaimed strip job with a haul road still cut into it, ground over old mine workings, which is a conversation to have before a set, not after, slag drive, common on Mon Valley lots and firmer than it looks, cinder lane laid down when the railroad still ran through, farm lane running between two bank barns, bank barn ramp, the earthen ramp into the upper level that eats the only flat ground on the property, buggy lane along the shoulder in Lancaster and eastern Lancaster County, produce auction lot, packed hard and usually the best staging ground for miles, limestone quarry haul road, sinkhole ground in the Great Valley and the Lehigh Valley, where carbonate rock sits close under the soil, frost heave that lifts a gravel lane every March and drops it again in April, mud season on a dirt township road, camp road up the mountain to a hunting cabin, gated most of the year, state game lands gate at the end of a public road, gated forest road in the Allegheny National Forest, log landing at the top of a skid road, sugarbush lane through the maples in Somerset and Potter counties, well pad access road built wide and firm for gas traffic, one of the easier surfaces we get, pipeline right of way used as a back way in, flood plain flat along the river that farms beautifully and stores badly, rowhouse block with no rear access and cars on both sides, Belgian block street in the older Philadelphia wards, trolley track set in the cartway in West Philadelphia and Delaware County, service alley behind the row, city steps, the public stairways that stand in for streets on Pittsburgh hillsides, hillside street too steep for a loaded tilt bed to stop on, garage cut under the house on a South Hills lot, with the only flat ground on the roof of it. For most properties a standard tilt-bed handles it. Where it will not, we will say so before you order rather than after the truck arrives.

The more you tell us about the site, the more accurate the quote and the delivery estimate.