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“The people here are wonderful. We have great people here,” he said.

There are no housing developments and little development in a town

that venerates its many historic structures, including a brick, two-story

outhouse.

“I’ve lived here my entire life,” he said. “My friends and family are

all here.”

Hard work and an enterprising spirit have been motivating him since

he was young.

“I went into the grocery business at P&C Foods for seven years,

beginning at an early age. I shoveled snow. Did a lot of lawn mowing. I

went around selling Christmas cards.”

His determination paid off during his 12 years working for Phelps

Guide Rail where he became superintendent and then four more years at

Elderlee doing similar work. These jobs kept him on the road a lot.

At both jobs he said, “I worked with signs, guide rails, bridge rail, and

right-of-way markers. Even though it paid well, we had built a house

and I was getting tired of living out of a suitcase, so I went to work as a

laborer for Villager Construction on the paving crew for another four

years.”

He helped pave roads in the city of Rochester. One skill he learned

while doing road construction, which has proved useful today, is how to

track details. For example, tonnage. Terry said he quickly learned how

to judge just when to shut off the truck’s deliveries.

“You have to know when to tell the truck to stop. You try to be very

careful. You don’t want leftover asphalt.”

Villager grew rapidly while he was there.

“We had two milling machines when I got there and they probably

have more then 18 of them now.”

With his background in paving roads and infrastructure, he felt ready

to run for the highway superintendent job in 2001.

His First Election — First Lost, Then WonFew first-time highway superintendent elections are more exciting

than Terry’s was. On election night it looked like he lost to the incum-

bent, who is now the town supervisor. There was so much controversy

at the time that Terry’s wife put a scrapbook together for all of the media

coverage. Terry explained, “The night of the election they said the

incumbent won. I heard he was out celebrating. The next day they re-

canvassed the machines, and I got a call from the Board of Elections say-

ing, ‘We’ve got a problem.’ It seems that somebody misread the voting

machine for District 2 where it said I had 49 votes but I had 149 votes

instead.”

The cliff hanger continued until absentee ballots were counted, and

there were enough of those to sway the election to either candidate.

“Two weeks later I got him two to one on the absentee ballots,”

Terry said. “He has a lot of influence in this town. Four years later he

came back as town supervisor.” Terry inherited the crew as well. He said

some were open to new ideas while others had mixed loyalties.

Fortunately the deputy was what Terry calls a “straight shooter.” He said,

“He was upfront and honest and helped me learn the job — especially

the paperwork — as quickly as possible. He could have set me up for

failure very easily, but he didn’t. I am grateful to him for that. I was used

to supervising, and he helped me a lot with the office part of the job.”

“The law was written that you don’t have to be here because back in

the old days the superintendent was often a farmer who would direct the

crew in the morning and return in the afternoon once his farming was

done. Today you are being paid as a full time employee. I’ve always had

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The town of Phelps Highway crew. (L-R): Perry Adams, Greg Phillips, Josh Colf, Kyle Tiffany, David Rasmussen Bill Poorman, and Terry Featherly.Missing is Dan Bremer who works nights.


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Right Out of the Box — Saving About $100,000When Terry first took office one gentleman retired and two other

workers, sons of the former superintendent, quit. Rather than immediate-ly fill two of three open positions, Terry decided to hunker down and tosee if the department could work effectively with two fewer people — acrew of eight full-time workers instead of 10.

“I tried it for a year and determined we could save the town a lot ofmoney — about $100,000 — and still keep the roads up in safe work-ing conditions. My thinking was, let’s put that money into the roads.”

It hasn’t quite worked out that way. The town is due for a new high-way facility, and for the past two years Terry’s budget for new machin-ery has been directed toward the cost of a new garage.

“I may do things differently. I’m a little bit more critical about keep-ing these town roads clean in winter. Some say we run them too much,but I can’t put a dollar value on a person’s life.”

He is quick to offer a recent example when the night driver helpedclear a path for an emergency vehicle trying to reach a baby who waschoking.

“The driver was just one road over so he jumped on it and opened theroad for the ambulance.”

For better coverage Terry shortened all the routes and added onemore.

“We had a truck that sat as a backup so we gave it a route. We wentto a six-truck route, which cut down on overtime.”

Beyond overtime, Terry’s reconstruction of the routes took into con-sideration parts of the roads with dangerous conditions and heavy com-

muter traffic. “We have hills and S curves and all kinds of things. My main concern

was that some of the most difficult roads were coming at the end of thedriver’s route. Traffic coming from Newark and heading to the Thruwayin Manchester was where we were having some accidents. One side ofa hill might be bare and on the other side there is five or six inches ofsnow that haven’t been plowed yet.”

By adding another route and re-routing the drivers he believes the res-idents are in better shape during what have been repeated, cold andwindy, heavy snowstorms this winter. Terry blames the wind for whythey are always out there “chasing drifts.”

He has also had some success getting grant money for the town. “I’ve gotten two different grants for signs from 3M for about $8,000.

We took the old signs and overlaid them with the new Diamond gradesheeting, a premier product that saved the town a lot of money.”

He also helped get them an economic stimulus grant of $150,000 toredo Banker Road to recycle the road and resurface it.

Adding Sand to the Town’s Salted Roads“On a day like today [a cold one in January] you can’t get to bare

roads in these temperatures. You have to find what is a reasonableamount of material to put on the road for the current weather condi-tions.”

He and the crew often gather in an informal conference to talk aboutchanging weather patterns and the resulting road conditions, includingthe amount of sun they anticipate, as straight sunshine can quickly meltice from pavement. The goal is always to limit the use of materials to justwhat is needed and no more. As the men talked in a huddle outside thebarn, one of them referred to “sun hours,” which he said farmers use in

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Ready for another day of plowing and salting in Phelps. Each driver is assigned their own truck. The new Mack truck on its way will be driven by DanBremer.



addition to a traditional time of day. A sun hour is a measurement of theamount of full sun that shines in a particular location and stated in hours.

“When I started it was straight salt mixed with a liquid,” Terry said.“My first five years in office I did just that. Then I was caught off guardwhen the price of salt jumped by about $3 a ton in one year. I hadwatched the other towns around using a sand and salt mix. They weregetting the job done. I couldn’t see where their roads were worse thanours. Maybe just a little sloppier, but still safe.

“So I decided to go and try using sand, which we had never donebefore. My theory was that if I could mix the salt and sand and some ofthe liquid treatment, the sand would actually carry some of the liquid.My goal was to get a higher concentration of liquid on the roads, plus itoffers an opportunity to cut back on our salt use.”

Terry said the plan is working. “We are still burning the roads off, but we are not going through as

much salt — salt being the most expensive element in the mix. In fact,salt just went up with a last minute jump of 32 percent for us. Sand [froma Hansen-run pit nearby] also went up a little bit.

“We used to use around 5,000 tons of salt a year. Now we are closerto 3,000 tons and maybe even a little less.

“When the winds pick up we might not salt right away in the areaswhere there will be major drifting and areas that collect snow,” he said.“We might stick to putting salt down on hills, curves, and intersectionsfor awhile.”

Terry acknowledges salt’s lack of effectiveness at certain tempera-tures. He said a high concentration might appear to help but will oftenbecome greasy and slick before it really begins to burn through the ice.

Even harder on the town’s roads he said is the constant freezing andthen high temperatures that have characterized the past few years.

“With all the freezing and thawing, water is getting into the surfaceand breaking the bond. Potholes start popping up. If the road buckles alittle bit, the snowplow will come through and take out chunks ofasphalt.”

He said that while he is still a little uncertain about global warming,he knows that during winters in Phelps for most of his life, “it used toget cold and stay cold.”

Terry and the crew do most of the milling while rebuilding roadsthemselves. Milling sometimes also leads to unpleasant surprises.

“When you see water in the asphalt while milling on an 80-degreeday in summer you know you’ve got a potential moisture problem.”

A routine fix is to cut a trench across the road and lay tile and thenpack it down with gravel.

There are only two dirt roads remaining in the town.“Of that total of 1.5 miles of dirt road, I don’t know what we are going

to do yet,” said Terry. Just one long-time farm family occupies the road along with a few

other residents. He said the older folks want to keep it dirt but that theirchildren might want to see it paved one day.

“It’s costing the town several thousands of dollars for dust oil. Wehave to grade it every year.”

The road also ends in a steep hill with a blind curve that ends at anintersection that has also been the scene of some accidents. Terry said toadequately deal with this dirt road, it would take more than oil and stone.Given its configurations he said he would also want to “take the hillsdown so they are not so steep and build up the intersection.”

While the crew often gets homemade baked goods at Christmas, theyalso got a loud complaint about the noise the trucks were making in theearly morning hours. Rather than dismiss the complainer, Terry quicklyrealized that the drivers were probably driving with their jake break on.Plus the new routes were putting them on this resident’s road earlier thanhe was used to hearing the sounds of heavy equipment moving snow.

“The truck is loud, but you don’t need the jake break when the plowis down. Just a few days before the complaint I had been telling the guysthat when they are out salting and not plowing to use their jake brake


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say we are going to take your tree down even if it is on town property.That’s not the way to approach things, and trees are important to peoplehere.”

Support Where NeededDuring the past 12 years there have been about 12 deadly accidents

in Phelps. The most recent (January 2015) occurred near Terry’s homewhen two local teenagers hit a tree while traveling 100 miles an hour.Alcohol was involved. He said most accidents have involved driver errorwith the exception of an out-of-state-couple from Maryland travelingfrom Niagara Falls to Geneva this summer. Both were killed instantlywhen a seemingly healthy tree limb overhanging the road fell onto theircar. Because the highway department is on call in such emergencies,Terry and his crew assisted the fire department in getting the tree limboff of the car, difficult work that took them long into the night.

“One more second and they [the couple] would have been OK,” hesaid with real remorse about the freak accident. His crew and excavatorhave also assisted tearing down an abandoned house that caught fire.

“It is written in our organization that we are to assist in an emergency,even at the school,” Terry said.

But when the crew did some quick pothole repairs in the school’sparking lot they were reprimanded by the town board and learned thatpotholes were not considered an emergency.

A more pressing and personal emergency came with a highwaygarage fire a couple of years ago.

“It eventually kind of smoldered itself out, rather than spread, but we

from page 28

The salt barn has plenty of capacity, but Terry and the crew have managed to cut back their use by careful consideration on the road conditionsand by adding sand to the mix.


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our other trucks have a battery disconnect, but this one didn’t. This firehappened to start in the only International we had. It was a good truck. Iwent home at 4:40 and close to 9 I got the call saying the alarm wasgoing off. The alarm sensed the heat. One of the crew lives nearby andsaw what was happening. With that, we were all off and running.”

Welcome to paperwork. It’s been two-and-a-half years since theflames were extinguished, and yet the insurance claims on the truck fireare still being bickered over in court. He also posted a reminder aboutthe battery disconnect right where the crew checks out at the end of theirshifts.

They pressure washed the walls. All truck upholstery had to becleaned because Terry says that soot is highly corrosive and the interiorswere covered with lots of it.

Town budgets mandate that the department hang on to its equipmentfor a long time before replacement. What was once a 10-year rotation isnow about 15 years. Preventive maintenance has all trucks sent out to berustproofed once a year. Now for the good news — there is a brand newMack 2015 coming their way that cost $202,000. The vehicle is current-ly at TENCO being powder-coated and having the box put back on. InPhelps each man is assigned his own vehicle; this time it’s Danny's turnfor a new truck.

Do-It-YourselfersThere may be few things gnarlier than trying to get older asphalt out

of a truck body, especially those tight spots at the end near the cab. The

Phelps crew uses corner-guards to prevent that from happening. Thedevice, as yet untested, kind of looks like a large metal arrowhead. Terryhas a picture of it on his phone. Asphalt season is still a few months awayso they aren’t sure how it will work. Self-starters all of them — the crewalso created a broom attachment to the excavator to help with springclean up. Terry says it works great getting stones and sod out of the yardswhile also sweeping up on other tasks like shoulder box-outs. They alsorebuilt a roll-off dumpster container designed to use for tree work.

He said morale is good, with an occasional group-wide chicken wingand pizza lunch. The crew, which he refers to as “my guys,” are: DanBremer, Greg Phillips, Dave Rasmussen, Josh Colf, Kyle Tiffany, PerryAdams, and Bill Poorman.

As he described their common interests, he said, “A lot of the boysare hunters. A bunch of us are into racing.”

Terry says he began watching Formula One races as a kid with his dadat Watkins Glen.

“NASCAR, Formula One, I like all that stuff.” Terry and his wife Diana, who helps supervise three acute medical

facilities, are active in the Phelps Lions Club. Daughter Brittney liveswith grandsons Kendrick (5) and Gus (5 months) in Rochester, whileson Chad is beginning his career path. Terry and Diana enjoy campingwith friends; he just bought his first motorcycle, a 2003 Yamaha.

Working TogetherTerry pointed to a new box culvert on Oaks Corners, completed in

2006, as an example of a job where the town and village worked togeth-er and required no outside help, including engineers.

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They were replacing an old stone archway that appears to be held inplace without mortar of any kind. During the many years it has been traf-ficked, especially by very large equipment coming from a Elam-rungravel pit just yards from the bridge, small dips had appeared in the road.Terry, for one, began to fear it might collapse.

“The road had little dips in it where stones had settled,” he said. “Sowe took it on.”

Building what you see today — an attractive new, pre-cast, box cul-vert over a fast-moving creek was not, he said, “a typical highway job.”

Working with the crew he created simple hand-made drawings for theshort but problematic span on busy Cross Road. He is pleased with howit turned out. Bridge approvals came from the Army Corps of Engineersand the DEC with all the work done in-house including support from thevillage DPW. Terry said they received a letter from the DEC saying theyhad all done a commendable job.

A New Highway GarageThe sign out front says '”Phelps Highway Garage Founded 1930,”

and not a lot has gone on with the building since then. While solid andin good shape, its doors are now too narrow for modern equipment, andit’s cold and somewhat uncomfortable to work in. Designs for a newhighway building have been on the board for about four years. It is like-ly that a new building will be up sometime late fall, 2015. First, the exist-

from page 32


The finished box culvert. Terry who designed the work, which met allinspections, without the expense of an engineer, had a lot of help fromthe village of Phelps where they had better equipment for concretework.

The finished box culvert over a fast moving creek. This project used a lotof help and heavy equipment from the village which was better pre-pared for working with concrete.


ing building — a solid cinder block like they used to build with a fairlynew roof — is determined by the town board to be coming down. Terrywould prefer to keep it for storing equipment that now lives outdoorsyear around. Or as he puts it, “Close to $100,000 in equipment sitting outthere year around.”

To compensate for the harsh environment the crew follows a strictregimen of washing all heavy equipment following use and annual saltprevention.

“Equipment lasts longer when it’s in good shape, and you get moremoney for it when you’re done,” he said.

“The new building is going out for bid right now. It will occupy thesame site we are on. I have heard two different stories including that theywill demolish this building before they begin to build.”

New at the entire town is a state audit, which has a lot of people tak-ing a good look at how they do business.

“I think the audit is a good thing,” said Terry who added this is thefirst one in his 13 years on the job. “It allows a superintendent a chanceto find out if there are things that we should be doing or doing things thatyou shouldn’t.”

As for tips to others he relies almost completely on a daily ledger ofevents.

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With the cost of salt, asphalt, fuel, and other elements changing everymonth he said it is key to know what your balances are. His daily diarywhere he records everything has been useful in preparing for the audit.

“You can have a situation where you have an asphalt ticket but youcan’t remember why. Our truck was helping out at another town so thebill came here. Without the diary I might have had a hard time figuringit out.”

There is a copy of an old photo on Terry’s office wall of four of hispredecessors sort of scowling at the camera in their blue-bib overalls.Two have cigarettes in their lips and some are posing hands on hips in avery manly attitude — a portrait of self-confidence. At the center is asteam-driven roller of some sort. The snapshot gives you the distinctfeeling that Terry and his crew have some very large boots to fill.

About the Town of PhelpsEven by upstate standards Phelps, organized in 1796, is a very old

town. It has more cobblestone buildings than nearly any other village inthe state and one of the last remaining two-story brick privies — with aflared slate roof and finial — that is perfectly preserved. A high regardfor the past is evident at every turn, including the Harmon CobblestoneFarmhouse and Cobblestone Smokehouse, and the William HuffmanCobblestone House — all listed on the National Register of HistoricPlaces.

A rare gem is the Baptist Church built in 1839 on Church Street whereeach side has slightly different courses of lake cobbles. Cobbles fromLake Ontario were considered to be somewhat more showy than fieldcobbles which are abundantly used as well. Most cobblestone buildingswere done by the masons who also created the Erie Canal. The cementusing burned limestone was apparently the same for both cobblestonesand the canal.

The town or district was originally named Sullivan to honor GeneralSullivan who led an expedition here that effectively wiped out the nativeinhabitants during the summer and fall of 1779. The name was changedto Phelps in 1796 after what historians suggest was a sumptuous feast atthe tavern of Jonathan Oaks, which was hosted by settler Oliver Phelps.

Gaining title to the land from the Indians was influenced by twoPhelps settlers, James Robison, son of the first settler, and NathanielSanborn, who drove 100 head of cattle to the Genesee country, intendedas gifts. At that time nearly 400 acres of land would cost about $100. Thefirst settler, John Decker Robison built and opened the first tavern in thearea on his tract in 1793. The area around the tavern became a trade cen-ter. Some of Robison’s land is now a part of the village. There was asteady stream of pioneers who remained here after that time. By 1796 itwas so well populated that it became necessary to organize the town andto elect officials. Thus Phelps was formed that year.

Among the usual officials elected at the first town meeting wereOliver Humphrey and Patrick Burnett as commissioners of highwayswith Jesse Warner and Philetus Swift as overseers of highways. By 1850Phelps had about 5,500 residents, a number that approaches the numberof residents (about 7,000) today. Patriotism was often a driving force,and the men from Phelps fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of1812, and saw action on the Niagara Frontier. The town created anorganization for men and women known as the Phelps Union SoldiersAid Society, devoted to the personal comfort of sick and wounded sol-

diers.Phelps has two active waterways—the Canandaigua Lake outlet and

Flint Creek, where mills of every description were erected. It had gristmills, woolen mills, flour mills, paper mills, and lumber mills. FlintCreek, which crosses the village in an east and west direction with anabundant “fall,” operated the machinery in mills that lined its banks fornearly a century. The falls can be easily seen from the Main Streetbridge.

Other industries including a basket factory, malt-house, machineshop, a carriage factory, cider mills, and a brandy distillery were busi-nesses that thrived in the early days. By 1883 the largest industry in townwas the Crown Manufacturing Company, which manufactured grain andfertilizer drills and wheel arrow grass sowers. Times were prosperous.By 1892 Phelps had 20 schoolhouses, 15 of which were built from brickand stone. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Northern Region of lines passedthrough Phelps connecting Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with the resorts ofSodus Point and Lake Ontario and opening up the markets for industrieshere.

One local resident said that until the 1970s the four railroads in townbrought with them an excellent tax base. Sauerkraut manufacturing wasthe largest employer in town. The popular pickled cabbage produced thetown’s first millionaire — Burton Babcock.

Visitors to Phelps today can easily slip into the past by visiting thePhelps hotel, a historic landmark built in 1867 by peppermint magnate,Lehman Hotchkiss at a cost of $26,000. Before the Depression wealthy


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New York City visitors who came to this part of upstate to pheasant hunt,

chose the hotel for lodging and fine food. The hotel, now called The

Historic Phelps Hotel, is still a family-owned business. A specialty called

“Chicken in the Ruff,” remains a special of the day.

Blending a beautiful past with purposeful present is evident in the

skillfully preserved buildings that deserve landmark status. For exam-

ple, in 2005 the Historical Society acquired what they call “The Country

Lawyer’s Office.” Built around 1835 the red brick building with four

white pillars occupies a prominent location on Main Street. A modest

philanthropist named Mary Hicks Preston purchased both the lawyer's

office and the Howe House where the Historical Society is located. Mary

Hicks was born in the same house where she died the day after her 97th

birthday. A large inheritance from her aunt allowed Mary to travel and

to donate to her favorite charities — the library and community center

among them — but always in an anonymous manner. Mary helped

found the Historical Society in Phelps and was the secretary for many

years.

Mary’s careful investment strategies continue to benefit Phelps in the

form of the Mary Hicks Preston Foundation which continues to make

grants available to non-profit organizations who improve the social,

recreational, and educational opportunities available to Phelps’ residents

as well as preserving historically significant buildings and artifacts in the

area.

Don Tiffany, the person who received the Historical Society’s Mary

Hicks Preston Lifetime Achievement Award this year, was also the

Phelps highway superintendent for about a half a dozen years so his

interest in highways is well rehearsed and goes deep. Don was there

when the last well-traveled road in Phelps was paved. “It was in 1973,”

says Don, now retired. “It might have been Stryker Road, which is out

toward Wayne County.” Don retired from the highways department in

1982.

Following a career selling heavy equipment he turned to the highway

job saying, “It was a mistake. The job was a lot more political then I

thought.”

On the plus side he remembers how fortunate they were to have an

abundance of gravel in town. He says, “If you wanted to build up a road

you just asked a local farmer if they would be willing to sell some grav-

el. We had very little hauling. One reason our roads are good is that they

were built with good gravel. It was a blessing.”

Don has talked to the old timers enough to sound like he was there in

the hard years of the 1930s when the town’s four Walter Trucks,“4-

wheel drive, expensive, huge, gas-guzzling, behemoths,” would some-

times get stuck when enormous drifts of snow fell behind them. Then the

driver (this was before radios) would have to climb out and walk to the

nearest farmhouse to call for backup. In especially bad situations the sec-

ond truck would get stuck, which meant they also weren't out plowing.

Sometimes the drifts might capture three of them.

“Snow drifts might be 15 to 20 feet right across the highway and the

V-plows just had to keep trying to ram through them,” Don recalled. In

the 1930s and 1940s, it was not unusual for farm families to be snowed

in for weeks. Salt, he said, was unknown prior to 1950. At that time

heavy equipment would be used to back up steep hills while workers

threw shovels of sand at the road.

“Highway work could wear you right down to a frazzle, especially in

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Sixteen years ago, Peter Vieveen was sitting in his pickup truck, at theside of the road, wondering whether to pull the plug on his fledgling busi-ness. He had no way of knowing that, in just a few more years, he wouldbuild North America Traffic Inc. (NAT) into the world leader in work-zone traffic control devices.

Formerly an estimator for a construction firm near Toronto, Canada,Vieveen had launched the world’s first remote controlled automatic flag-ger assistance device (AFAD) from his garage workshop in 1994. Soon,30 of the home-built units were working in the field. But Vieveen wasquickly learning that, the more units he sold, the more problems they cre-ated for him. Parked in his pickup, Vieveen wrote a list of all the reliabil-ity and maintenance issues he was facing. He listed 15 specific problems.Of these, he realized, almost all were related to the generators that pow-ered the AFAD’s gate arm and signal lights.

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“As a project estimator, my original interest was to save costs on roadand bridge construction. It was obvious, too, that flagging is a serioushazard for the workers on such congested job sites. It was the switch tosolar power that made my idea for AFADs practical.”

With new solar technology, improved long-life batteries and LEDlights, a host of problems was eliminated from the flagger design. Thetrailer-mounted AFADs typically operate on long duty cycles, with daysand weeks of continuous use. In those first models, the generator and itsrelated vibrations led to ongoing mechanical and engine repairs, electri-

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By solving those problems, Vieveen developed a family of traffic con-trol systems that can operate unattended for months at a time in virtual-ly any climate or working environment.

Growing AcceptanceLike most new technology, Vieveen’s AFADs and portable traffic sig-

nals needed some time to catch on. An Ohio contractor agreed to try outNAT’s first portable traffic signals in 2001, only if NAT committed tobuy back the unit after a year. At the end of the year, though, the contrac-tor elected to keep the first unit and ordered another. The AFAD receiveda boost in 2006 when the U.S. Marine Corps purchased heavy-duty unitsfor use at military checkpoints in Iraq, allowing troops to remain undercover while they operated the check points.

In 2004, Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation undertook field trials ofthe portable signals, which led to NAT’s first letter of approval for use onall provincial highway projects. So began the painstaking process of win-ning DOT approvals state-by-state and province-by-province.

Finally, in 2009, America’s federal government released its manual onuniform traffic control devices (MUTCD) based largely on the AFADspecifications from NAT. Today, NAT portable flaggers and signals haveapprovals, or pending approval, from virtually every jurisdiction in theUnited States and Canada and in many countries around the world.

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ly opened a new manufacturing facility in Port Colborne, Ontario, nearNiagara Falls. The new head office provides 20,000 sq. ft. of engineer-ing and manufacturing space. After 20 years, design innovation remainsthe focus of Vieveen’s development team. Now with the experience ofthousands of projects, NAT’s close connections with rental businessesand contractors provide constant inspiration for new features and customapplications. Signals and flaggers are now paired with various detectiondevices to automatically adjust operating cycles to vehicular and pedes-trian traffic. User-friendly remote controls and repeater stations allowusers to synchronize complex signaling needs on large, busy work sites.

“Our latest major development reduces the cost for owners even fur-ther,” Vieveen said. “With the light duty portable traffic signal we intro-duced in 2013, a single operator with a service truck can tow one or twounits and quickly set up a traffic control zone. One person can easilyposition the trailer and set up the lights. It’s ideal for emergency response,and the batteries will keep it running for 10 days, even under cloudyskies.”

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With the experience of its first 20 years, North America Traffic nowlooks ahead to the next 20 with a broad range of specialized products, aproven track record and a clear vision of its future.

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ADVANCED STORAGE TECHNOLOGY (AG) ..............49

AMERICAN EQUIPMENT LLC ......................................22

AMERICAN SHORING ..................................................50

AMTHOR INTERNATIONAL INC....................................57

ATLANTIC DETROIT DIESEL ALLISON ........................19

BEAM MACK SALES & SERVICE....................................5

BEYER BROS CORP ....................................................41

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BOBCAT OF SARATOGA ..............................................22

BOSCH REXTROTH CANADA ......................................11

BRADCO SUPPLY CO ..................................................38

BUFFALO TRUCK CENTER ..........................................61

CALEDONIA DIESEL......................................................45

CAPITAL TRACTOR INC ................................................40

CASEY’S TRUCK SALVAGE INC ..................................66

CATERPILLAR - NY DEALERS......................................36

CENTRAL EQUIPMENT LLC..........................................33

CHENANGO TRUCK ......................................................56

CLEARSPAN ..................................................................49

CLIFTON RECYCLING INC............................................54

DECAROLIS HEAVY DUTY PARTS ..............................10

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HACKER’S PACKERS INC ............................................24

HENDERSON PRODUCTS INC ....................................69

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UPSTATE SWEEPERS & RENTALS..............................33

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VANTAGE EQUIPMENT ................................................25

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VIKING CIVES INC ........................................................72

WAYNE’S WELDING INC ................................................8

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WOODFORD BROS ......................................................68

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Phelps for many years was one of the largest producers ofsauerkraut in the world, so it comes as no surprise that highwaysuperintendent Terry Featherly, as an enterprising kid, hand-

planted baby cabbages from the back of a machine that positioned him near the ground.Although Phelps is no longer a manufacturing center for sauerkraut, lots of cabbages areharvested from the fields here every fall. The kraut itself — a staple in many families —is now manufactured by Great Lakes in Manchester.

Phelps hosts a long-time-running annual Sauerkraut Festival that draws salivating-seek-ing folks from all over. This year it will be held July 31 to August 2 and features enough freechocolate sauerkraut cake (tastes like coconut) to feed at least 100 guests.

Terry, with a strong background in guiderails and asphalt, became the town of Phelpshighway superintendent in 2002. The crew of eight men plow and mow 97 miles ofpaved roads and 1.5 miles of dirt. They plow and mow an additional 22 milesfor the county, totaling 119 miles. On this agreement with the county hekind of winced. “This year we took a beating on county roads becausesalt went up 32 percent, and we already had the contract signed,” hesaid.

In terms of mowing, his crew mows as many miles as largernearby towns including Farmington, Canandaigua, and Victor.

“We get a lot of compliments about our mowing. People canbe very critical about that. It’s often a safety issue because ofthe number of deer around here.”

For example, Terry’s son had four deer hits in less thana year while on delivery runs. Dead deer are removed byan outside contractor.

The budget is $1.8 million, with $225,000 comingfrom CHIPS. Terry is a big supporter of the CHIPSprogram, which he credits with delivering neededincreases for materials.

“We [superintendents] go to Albany to lobbybecause we are falling farther behind, and CHIPS hasdefinitely helped. When the price of asphalt more thandoubles, you are not going to double your budget. So howwill you get by getting less work done? The residents won’tallow it!”

The best part of the job? “I like being able to have the abili-ty to make my own decisions,” he said.

But that doesn’t mean he isn't listening to others. Regular atten-dance in regional highway superintendent meetings is valuable hesaid because, “You always trust your resources. There are peoplewho have had this job for many years. It always pays to talk to them.”

He also did some independent research comparing the number ofmiles serviced and the budgets of neighboring towns. He said,“Phelps looks really good.”

Terry’s father worked at GE and owned and worked a farm nearwhere Carrier Circle now stands in Syracuse, Terry’s grandfather alsofarmed. His mother worked in real estate and as an interior decorator. Terrysaid Phelps, where he has lived his entire life, remains a farming communi-ty at heart.


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