February Issue

Top fence truck from 1998 is still a winner

We swear this is not an endorsement for Ford Motor Co., but recently Mark Fox of Fox Fence, Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y., sent us this photo of his 1999 Ford F-550 Super Duty, still busy at work after 14 hard years on the job. The big Ford was named the winner of the 1998 World Fence News Fence Truck of the Year Contest, which long-time WFN readers might remember. It is shown here during the installation of the first of five sets of HySecurity® HydralLift™ vertical lift gates for the Niagara Frontier Transit Authority (Buffalo, N.Y.) during a major security upgrade of their bus and rail facilities. Mark said that the Ford was his last truck before he came out of the field and into the office. It has been working for 14 years and is still going strong, although the company has purchased numerous other trucks since then. The judges for the 1998 Fence Truck of the Year Contest, all of them prior Fence Truck Contest winners, thought very highly of the big F-550 and its super efficient organization and load hauling capacity. For sure it is a true workhorse! Personnel pictured at the site of the HySecurity installation are: Chris Ford (Ironworkers Local 6), Bill Fox (Fox Fence, Inc. gate technician), Ken Oleciznaka (Ironworkers Local 6) and Jason Herr (Ironworkers Local 6).