Keeping Acadia Beautiful

This summer my fiancée and I had a chance to visit Acadia National Park on the north coast of Maine, where we marveled at the majestic views of this spectacular region. During the summer months, people come from far and wide to experience nature and visit popular tourist destinations like Bar Harbor. The entire area is beautiful, offering much to visitors, living up to Maine’s claim as a vacationland and “The way life should be.”With millions of tourists traveling through this region during the peak months of summer, it’s no wonder that Acadia Towing and Fleet Services, located in Bar Harbor, is growing since opening shop in 2008. With five tow trucks ranging from light- to heavy-duty and adding one new truck a year, owners George Seavey and Todd Staples are not complaining about business. “We came into a market that wasn’t covered well,” Seavey said. “The summer months provide us with 60 percent of our business. In winter, weather conditions also provide us with opportunities to extricate cars from ditches.”It’s not an easy job, though, with so many hills and mountains to traverse, where cars break down on Cadillac Mountain underneath the wings of soaring eagles. Looking into the sky, Seavey and Staples may have been inspired by Acadia and the American symbol of freedom, the Bald Eagle, thus painting one on each side of their 2001 Freightliner FL70 with a Holmes medium-duty wrecker.It’s an elongated silver/metallic eagle with a long yellow beak, its mouth hooked with a tow chain covering the hood of the truck. The name of their company, Acadia Towing and Fleet Service, stands out on both doors, just under the eagle, in a thick gold lettering and is reinforced on the boom and the front windshield.“We picked the truck up at auction in San Francisco,” Seavey said. “It was designed for homeland security and is equipped with firefighting equipment. It has good clean-up capabilities and a 700-gallon water tank.”The tank is painted yellow, which blends nicely against the red truck and contains a green tree and the phrase, “Doing our part to keep Acadia beautiful.”