53:, it started as a local trucking business with a single surplus US Army truck, originally called "Imperatore Bros. Moving and Trucking." Later that same year they bought a second surplus truck, and then the name and two trucks of A&P Trucking Corp. for $ 800 from Albert Amorino, also of West New York. In the 1950s, after a few years of legal wrangling over the name by the
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