Upstate Auto & Mobile Truck RepairMechanic in Schaghticoke, NY
Cars, light trucks and fleet vehicles, one short block off Main Street and a 1-minute drive from the village.
Knickerbocker Mansion, Schaghticoke. Photo: Peter Flass, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Schaghticoke // Rensselaer County
Your mechanic, one block off Main.
The shop is on Pleasant Avenue, a 1-minute drive from the village and one short block off Main Street.
Eric and the crew are the town’s own shop, so a drop-off here is no trip at all.
The garage has roll-up bays and a lift for cars and light trucks.
Brake repair, oil changes, engine repair, diagnostics, suspension repair and AC repair are all done on site.
The shop is NYS DMV-registered and an official public inspection station.
Pre-purchase inspections are on the list too.
When a fleet truck cannot be driven in, the mobile service truck goes out to it.
Know the area
Around Schaghticoke.
Schaghticoke is read as “the place where the waters mingle”, where the Hoosic River and Tomhannock Creek meet.
The Hoosic falls once ran woolen, flax and powder mills.
A 700-foot concrete dam built for a hydro station now spans the river here.
The village has only about 240 housing units, and the rest of the town is mostly farmland with new building.
Melrose has many homes that wealthy Trojans built long ago as vacation retreats.
Hemstreet Park, Pleasantdale and Speigletown grew into commuter suburbs for Troy and Albany.
Across the Hoosic, the Village Annex of Valley Falls sits inside the Town of Schaghticoke.
- Knickerbocker MansionA brick house on Knickerbocker Road, home to the Knickerbocker family for generations and now a local-history museum.
- Schaghticoke FairThe Rensselaer County fair, held each late summer at the north end of Main Street, where NY 67 splits off.
- Hoosic River dam and fallsFalls that once ran woolen, flax and powder mills, now crossed by a 700-foot concrete dam built for a hydro station.
- Tomhannock Creek and the HoosicThe Hoosic River and Tomhannock Creek join here, the “place where the waters mingle” behind the village name.
Services in Schaghticoke
What we fix on Pleasant Avenue.
Pleasant Avenue is one short block off Main Street, where NY 40 and NY 67 run together through the village.
Coming up NY 40 from Melrose and Speigletown, you cross Tomhannock Creek just before you reach Main Street.
Coming in on NY 67 from Valley Falls, the fairgrounds at the north end of Main Street mark the edge of the village.
A truck that will not start at your yard or farm is a job for the mobile service truck, so call (518) 441-6283 and ask.
The roads you drive
Farm country roads and river hills.
NY 40 south of the village is a two-lane road, rural near Melrose and more residential closer to Speigletown.
Old Schaghticoke Road (NY 67) is about five miles of climbing between the Hudson and the village, hard on brakes.
Add upstate road salt and the mud of farm roads, and brakes, suspension and undercarriages earn regular attention.
Questions
Questions from Schaghticoke.
How far is the shop from the village of Schaghticoke?
It is a 1-minute drive, about half a mile. The shop is on Pleasant Avenue, one short block off Main Street.
Can I get a NYS inspection in Schaghticoke?
The shop is an official NYS public inspection station, DMV facility 7120230.
Call (518) 441-6283 to ask about timing before you come in.
Does the mobile truck come to Schaghticoke?
The mobile service truck goes out to fleet vehicles and trucks.
Call (518) 441-6283 with the vehicle and where it is parked, and Eric will tell you what the truck can do.
Get a quote
In Schaghticoke? Tell Eric.
Call or text Eric. Say what the vehicle is, where it is, and what it is doing.
One number for the shop and the mobile truck.
Shop: Mon–Fri 9 AM–5:30 PM, half days Saturday.
On-site shift: weeknights 5 PM to about midnight.
- Pleasant Ave, Schaghticoke, NY 12154
- NYS DMV registered repair shop, facility 7120230
- Official NYS public inspection station