Speed Motor Express

Although Carmelo Savarino didn't know it when he immigrated to Buffalo, New York from Sicily, Italy in 1913, Western New York had founded itself as a main transportation hub as soon as the Erie Canal was completed in 1825, connecting the Great Lakes with the ports of New York. But the day Savarino started using the extra room in his grocery truck to pick up and deliver goods for other businesses through the Italian section of Buffalo, he became a part of that heritage, one that now relied on highways, trucks, container ships and cargo planes rather than canals and barges.