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Cryogenic tank trucks

Description: Process Engineering in Plaistow, NH, where cryogenic tank trucks are manufactured to transport fuel, especially liquefied methane (LNG). Long freight train passes on adjacent railroad. Men constructing interior of a tank. Welding. Truck beds, tank components. Rear of finished truck opened up to show many valves and gauges.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1978

Fuel trucks

Description: Fuel tank trucks, chemical and solvent truck, Exxon, Old Colony, liquefied methane (LNG) trucks marked “flammable gas,” on the highway. Entrance ramp to Route 93 in Somerville. Following Virginia Pipe Line Company tanker. Road sign “Fuel Truck Route.” White Fuel truck on Southeast Expressway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1978

King with truckers

Description: Gov. Edward King holds press conference to announce “one-twelfth budget” - funds to last just a month during legislative impasse on annual budget. Secretary of Administration and Finance Edward Hanley. Gov. King meets with independent truckers about crisis precipitated by fuel shortage and high prices. George Oberg represents truckers. King announces he will seek loosening of Blue Laws to allow truckers to drive through the state on Sunday; and he will review equipment leasing law. Paul Guzzi, Charles Mahoney, Joseph Fitzpatrick.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/02/1979

Massport container terminal

Description: Massport shipping container terminal. Sign on truck “King for Governor.” Freight containers stacked two and three high. Tractor trailers parked in truck bays. Overhead hoisting equipment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/10/1978

New England Produce Center

Description: New England Produce Center in Chelsea. Many tractor trailer trucks pull in and out. Fork lift moves pallet of vegetable crates. Cabbages loaded onto back of truck. Fuel tank being filled with diesel. Boxes of strawberries.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/14/1979

Oil delivery and billing

Description: General Oil / Reading Oil truck. Driver attaches hose to fill pipe on side of house. Finishes delivery, prints bill from meter, leaves it in mail slot, drives off. General Oil office. Maintenance truck pulls up. Worker takes tools out of side compartment. Inside office clerk enters billing information at computer keyboard. Printout on perforated paper lists data by billing code.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1979

Oil tanks

Description: Oil tanks, trucks, and tankers in Revere, MA.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/11/1980

TRUCKERS STRIKE

Description: LOGOS, STICKERS AND TAXATION PROTEST SIGNS ON TRUCKS, INTERVIEW WITH TRUCKERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1983

Truck terminal

Description: Truck activity around tandem trailer terminal near Coca-Cola bottling plant at intersection of Storrow Drive and Cambridge Street, adjacent to Mass. Turnpike and Allston Crossing rail yard. Tractor trailers with freight cars, fuel tanker, and covered dump truck pull in and out of terminal. Constant roar of motors. Sign for Sears Distribution Area Service Center. Containers parked without cabs. “Dangerous Cargoes Prohibited” sign. Data General building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1979