Upstate Auto & Mobile Truck RepairAuto & Truck Repair in Waterford, NY
From Waterford it is 20 minutes up NY 40 to a garage with a lift, plus a mobile truck for fleet vehicles and trucks.
Lock E-3 on the Waterford Flight of the Erie Canal. Photo: Marcbela, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Waterford // Saratoga County
From the canal, 20 minutes.
Waterford sits where the Hudson and the Mohawk meet, and the shop is 20 minutes north of that junction.
The run is US 4 to NY 142, Oil Mill Hill Road and then NY 40, about ten miles in all.
At the end of it is a garage with roll-up bays and a lift for cars and light trucks.
Brake repair, oil changes, engine repair, diagnostics, suspension repair and AC repair all happen in house.
Anyone buying a used car can book a pre-purchase inspection, and the shop is an official NYS public inspection station.
For fleet vehicles and trucks the mobile service truck is the other option, so ask when you call (518) 441-6283.
Know the area
Around Waterford.
Waterford is a compact old canal and mill town, only about 0.3 square miles of land.
It sits very low between the Hudson and the Mohawk, and the most recent significant flood came in June and July of 2006.
The Waterford Flight, five canal locks, lifts boats from the Hudson up to the Mohawk past Cohoes Falls.
It opened on May 15, 1915, is still working, and was named a civil engineering landmark in 2011.
The village name comes from the ford between the mainland and Peebles Island, now a state park with trails.
Two National Register districts cover the village and the Northside, and Saratoga Avenue has Victorian mansions.
The village was incorporated in 1794 and claims to be the oldest continuously incorporated village in the country.
- Waterford FlightFive canal locks, E-2 to E-6, that lift boats from the Hudson up to the Mohawk past Cohoes Falls. Opened in 1915 and still working.
- Peebles Island State ParkA 190-acre state park where the Hudson and Mohawk meet, with Revolutionary War earthworks, trails and river views.
- Troy-Waterford BridgeCarries US 4 over the Hudson on the piers of the 1804 Union Bridge, which burned in 1909.
- Waterford Historical MuseumIn the 1830 Hugh White Homestead at 2 Museum Lane, with a working scale model of Lock 4 on the old Champlain Canal.
Services in Waterford
What we fix for Waterford.
Leave Waterford on US 4 south over the city line, then turn onto NY 142 (125th Street and Northern Drive).
Oil Mill Hill Road leads to NY 40, which runs north about ten miles to Schaghticoke.
Flooding has closed village streets before, so after a big storm check your route first.
A fleet truck that cannot make the run is a call for the mobile service truck, so phone (518) 441-6283.
The roads you drive
Water, salt and river crossings.
Waterford is low ground between two rivers and a canal, and wet conditions are hard on brake parts and undercarriages.
Crossings like the Troy-Waterford Bridge and the Mohawk bridge to Cohoes add salt spray to every winter commute.
A vehicle that spends its nights near the canal or river deserves a look underneath each spring.
Questions
Questions from Waterford.
How far is the shop from Waterford?
It is a 20-minute drive, about ten miles.
Take US 4 to NY 142, then Oil Mill Hill Road and NY 40 north to Schaghticoke.
Will the mobile truck come to Waterford?
The mobile service truck goes out to fleet vehicles and trucks.
Call (518) 441-6283 with the vehicle and the location, and Eric will say what the truck can do.
Get a quote
In Waterford? 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