About This Stamp
This stamp features the image of a Great Depression-era eight-wheel tractor trailer truck. There are two versions of the stamp — engraved and photogravure. The engraved stamp was issued on May 25, 1991, at Secaucus, New Jersey, and the photogravure version was issued on May 25, 1994, again at Secaucus, New Jersey.
The 10-cent Tractor Trailer covered all the rates first-class presort and bulk regular third-class mail.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced the engraved stamp on the C press with plate numbers at intervals of 48 stamps. Only plate 1 was used. It was issued in coils of 500 and 3,000 stamps. The photogravure stamp was also printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing but on the Andreoti press, and it was issued in rolls of 500 or 3000 stamps. The plate numbers appeared in the form of two single digits — plate numbers 11 and 22 were issued with plate numbers at intervals of 24 stamps.
The stamp was designed by David K. Stone of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and engraved by Gary Chaconas, who did the vignette, and Gary Slaught, who engraved the lettering.