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On 2/1/2020 at 6:54 PM, Chelsea Harper said:

Hello! 
 

Arute Brothers was my late great grandfathers company (James Arute) and my mother’s father was the project manager (Jim Jr). If anyone has great pics of any trucks or other equipment please send it to me, I know this post is hella old. My mom is in her 60s and she frequently Reminisces about her and her sisters climbing and trying to drive the equipment. Generally trying to get in trouble 😂

I know your post is a couple years old but hopefully you see this! Arute was done before I was born but knew folks who worked there or were around the shop. I had a friend who ran a brand new Northwest 80D shovel on the 2 adjacent jobs they had on the south end of Rt 9 in Essex-Old Lyme, 1965. An old neighbor of mine (I think her name was Diane) drove truck for them when they were building the west half of 691 in the 80s. If you're on Facebook, join the New England Historical Construction page and you'll find plenty of Arute Bros. stuff. 

18 minutes ago, mechohaulic said:

first picture - LJ on lowboy' is that an arute ;or  O&G and sun glare gives it a two tone paint ?

That was one of Arute's lowbed trucks. To answer your other question, you wouldn't have met my grandpa-he was an engineer. Supervised his own development projects and consulted with many others. Him and dad knew the D'Angelos that worked for Mastro. 

George Jarvis of Manchester's 1965 B61 ten wheeler with a fresh paint job. Was a Balf truck new. Stolen in 1979 and never recovered. 

Contract Services of CT DM site truck in Manchester

Ali's Nurseries Granite Moffett truck, Plantsville

Some of O&G's trucks at the 5/15/91 project yard in East Hartford

Denis Yaworski's RD800 and other toys in his building

Not a truck, but grandpa was friends with the Mastrobattistos and they did a lot of work together. They ran Ls, Bs, Rs, RDs, and a CL. 

First two are a couple that have appeared in here...looking a little sad these days. 

Landie Construction of Bolton RD pulling a 955H through the notch onto 384

On 5/3/2019 at 1:22 PM, james j neiweem said:

A Gateway tri axle Mack Granite passed me on 95. Used to be all Pete fleet.

Must have been the same truck I saw on 91 last week. Looked very new. 

Time to reboot this thread. 

VMS Construction's triaxle in the yard in Vernon

Southington Highway Dept. pretreating with the RD. They also have a steelnose S/A and a Granite rolloff. 

My club is having it's annual springtime gas-up this weekend May 4-5. Antique tractors, construction equipment, engines, sawmills, good flea market. We have a few trucks including a B61 and R607 running around but would be cool if we got a few Macks or whatever you got show up for show. Could be a warm-up to the Yankee Candle show.  

$5 per person admission, 12 and under free. Antique vehicles including trucks are also free! 

We are at 544 Amston Rd. (rt. 85) Colchester, CT, on the Hebron line, mile and a half north of downtown Colchester and Rt. 2. 

http://www.zagrayfarmmuseum.org

Looks like we may be losing another Mack holdout. Just saw a brand new Volvo on 84 all done up for Herb Holden. 

Campanella Corp. was a big contractor and materials provider here in the New England states. Originally they were Campanella & Cardi Construction before the two families split in 1968. Campanella went out of business in the mid-80s but Cardi Corporation is still a major player in the construction and materials business in Rhode Island and Connecticut (and runs a big fleet of Macks new and old).

C&C ran mostly Mack with a few Autocars. Ls, Bs, Hs, Rs, DMs, you name that Mack model, they had it. I see your truck is still in Palmer Paving livery. Palmer Paving Corp. out of Palmer, Massachusetts is still in business as well and maybe they can help with some of the info you desire.

If you are on Facebook, there are plenty of groups relating to old Macks and antique construction equipment such as the Historical Construction Equipment Association and the Rockbusters. The Rockbusters group is made of primarily northeast US members and has lots of info and photos related to Campanella. Good luck!

Saw one of H.I. Stone's R-models cleaned up and running trailerless through Hartford yesterday. Tilcon had one of their CHs delivering barriers to the staging yard on Rt. 2 in Glastonbury today. Also saw one of the RD triaxles getting a ride on a lowboy...hope they aren't dumping them yet.

I'll be moving to the Moorestown area sometime this spring. My girlfriend's family is there so won't be going west to gas country. I should also add that I don't yet have a CDL, so are there any companies willing to train new guys?

I'm central CT born and raised and love it here, however, my girlfriend and I are considering a move to south Jersey near where her family is, just outside Philly. I've always wanted to work on a big excavating or road project. Who are the good companies in NJ/eastern PA to look into down there? I know there are some guys on here who live in that area.

This truck was owned by a company from Derby. Can't remember their name

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Don't know that company's name but I know there was someone down that way that had an ex-Arute 1974 DM800 lowbed tractor with a winch. It was in this color last time I saw it.

LaRosa's. Thats the small one. They got another huge one i couldnt get a picture of there. Was an ex-tilcon Euc. They bought some big machines to do this job. Doing over the whole center of Meriden where the mall use to be.

Didn't think they had anything that big. Guess I'm going hunting after work tomorrow...

LaRosas DM800 site truck. Ex-Suzio. I was told when they first bought it it had a paint job that was perfect.

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Who's Euc in the background? Not a lot of rigid frame off roaders left here.

We were hauling gravel out of Tilcon (Lake Compounces parking lot).

Gotcha. Lot of trucks coming and going now that it's open season. My grandpa and all the guys from Marek and Mastrobattisto used to swim in the ponds down there after work in the 60s.

Bond ran out of sand and were crushing stone to make sand. I know one of the RDs went to Supporrt Sevices of North Haven and then the others went over the pond i heard.

American was hauling millings into NB Tilcon out of Guilford off 95 for a couple months straight at night. Havent seen any of their trucks since

I saw a couple American trucks on 384 yesterday headed west. Haven't seen them around in a couple years til then.

E.T.I.

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Independent Crushing

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You were right in my neighborhood! I'd recognize that Mobil anytime. Trucks always coming and going in there.

last I knew the Tilcon Branford Quarry still had one of those v8 DM 800's. still see dome of there high DM 's with the steel noses working for second life contractors. I wonder how many of these models they had.

Old Saybrook has one to clean out the asphalt plant too. New Britain still has a CH lowboy and some of the Soneco RD triaxles.

CT Mulch Distributors has a batch of White-Autocar twin steers I see all over as well...they are pretty cool. They are in O&G colors, so I assume they are ex-O&G.

O&G does indeed have some White Oak/CT Sand & Stone B-models. I believe Manafort ended up with some of the equipment as well. There are some pics of their B-61s working on I-91 in Wethersfield in Edgar Browning's book "Roadbuilding Construction Equipment at Work: In the State of Connecticut." You can also enjoy a couple of their B's here...

I didn't think the Superliners were even around anymore. Say, I got some mechanic friends looking for a job...