Welcome back Leavitt's

1. Two Petes (#309 - left and #301 - right) flank a KW (#316). The KW is set up with a portable satellite dish for a weekend stay over.

2. These well equipped rigs are set up for special loads.

Leavitt's Freight Service of Springfield, Oregon was back again this past weekend with three trucks.

Specialists in long loads, particularly timber, they were here last September with truckloads of utility poles. See http://truckfax.blogspot.com/2010/09/looooong-haul-by-leavitts.html

This week end three more trucks were back, and there are three more to come. Again they are carrying utility poles from Oregon, which will be shipped to Ireland in the coming weeks. The first three to arrive, pictured above had to wait over until Monday morning until their trailers were unloaded and they could hit the road once more.

Update: I just missed getting a photo of two more Leavitt's on Monday. They were a pair of Freightliner COEs, no doubt selected for extra long loads. Too bad, but them's the brakes Jake.

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Looooong Haul by Leavitt's

Leavitt's Freight Services of Springfield, Oregon specializes in carrying timber poles, engineered wood products and general commodities. The second generation concern, founded in 1958, used to concentrate its activities in the western US, but since deregulation has widened its scope to just about anywhere in North America.Some of the timber it carries is extra long - 100 feet or more - and they have the equipment to do the job.

See their web site at : www.leavitts.com/

Even so, Halifax is a bit out of their way, so it was a great surprise to see four of their trucks here on Monday. They were carrying timber utility poles from Eugene, Oregon to Halifax to go by ship to Drogheda, Ireland. The trailers were soon unloaded, and the trucks were gone by noon. I thought I had missed my chance to get pictures, but they were back again today. It turns out that they had returned to Houlton, Maine, where four other company trucks had four more loads for Halifax. They swapped trailers at Houlton, and arrived back in Halifax today.


1. Four Leavitt trucks in Halifax.

2. Leavitt Pete 304

3. Leavitt Pete 301

4. Leavitt KW 316

5. Full kit headache rack.

6. Leavitt Volvo 254

These are definitely western trucks with their distinctive long wheelbases, and are completely fitted out with headache racks, tire chains, rigging chains, ladders and shovels - ready for anything.