A 102-inch-wide tractor-trailer belongs in Alburtis, a hillside borough of 2,400 people, narrow streets and no traffic lights, about as much as a tricycle belongs on Interstate 78.
Yet Sharon Trexler couldn’t get through a five-minute phone call in mid-March about the tiny burg’s big freight problem before another truck drove past Borough Hall.
It’s an hourly occurrence, Trexler said, especially since warehouses opened for business at the new Liberty at Spring Creek complex just north of town.
